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TIL that Foghorn Leghorn’s name is the type of rooster he is

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jNDwN TIL there is a park in Tampa owned by Cuba, and for 60 years it was the only piece of Cuban-owned land in the United States
4klXa TIL that the “Zoom-Zoom-Zoom” song used in Mazda car commercials isn’t actually in English. It’s a Brazilian capoeira song (in Portuguese) also known as “Zum Zum Zum” and featured in the 1993 movie, Only The Strong.
v1jo8 TIL one of the lost Faberge eggs from Imperial Russia was discovered in 2012 after the owner, a scrap metal dealer, struggled to sell it because prospective buyers thought he was overestimating it’s worth in gold and jewels. It was later valued at £20million.
69eKm TIL that Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman and his wife had tickets on the Hindenburg when returning from their honeymoon in Europe in 1937, but were unable to secure seats together, so they took alternative transportation instead, avoiding the Hindenburg disaster
MekL8 TIL of Jessica O. Matthews, a Nigerian-American entrepreneur. At the age of 19 she invented the Soccket, which is a soccer ball that stores kinetic energy and can provide three hours of light after half an hour of play.