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TIL that the Ho Chi Minh trail was not simply a few footpaths but a network of tracks wide enough to drive trucks along, and multiple oil pipelines that by the end of the war had supplied 270,000 tonnes of petroleum to troops in southern Vietnam

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4kPgJ TIL that of the 44 original colonists who founded Los Angeles, only two were White. Of the other 42, 26 had some degree of African ancestry and 16 were Indians or mestizos [people of mixed Spanish and Indian blood].
xVQ1 TIL There is a convicted cannibal (Issei Sagawa) living as a free man in Japan due to a loophole in the law.
KY0wG TIL: In the Canadian province of Quebec, people who died during the winter must be cremated or interred by 15 May.
BrZox TIL that Chlorine Trifluoride was so dangerous that the Nazis refused to use it. Due to unstableness, the chemical was unfit for weaponisation. The chemical burned at over 2000° C and was able to melt bunkers, tanks, and burn entire cities.
6KAZ TIL: Stubbs the cat has been the official mayor of Talkeetna Alaska for 20 years.