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

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xVaog TIL that after being prohibited from wearing shorts during the hot summer months, bus drivers in Sweden wore skirts to work, citing that since their women coworkers could wear skirts, it would be discriminatory to prohibit them from wearing skirts too.
lo1M1 TIL A French doctor lured as many as 60 Jews into his home under the pretence of safety from the Nazi occupiers. He then killed them with his own gas chamber.
0wokN TIL Hangul is the alphabetic system used for writing the Korean language, but in North Korea it is known as Chosŏn muntcha. Because of the influence of Confucianism and of Chinese culture, Hangul was not used by scholars or Koreans of the upper classes until after 1945
eQAD TIL: There is a ½ mile long wall in Detroit originally built to separate blacks from whites
16QMD TIL in 2016, an Oregon man essentially dissolved inside a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming after he accidentally fell into it.