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TIL that the USS Bonhomme Richard is named after the Richard of Poor Richard's Almanack

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MedQ8 TIL for a motorcycle stunt in 'No Time To Die', they had to pour 8400 gallons of Coca Cola onto a street of Italy to make the stunt possible. They did that to make the street less slippery and it cost over $70k.
KYlmQ TIL: The Cia Cia language, an Austroniasian language spoken in Buton, an island in Indonesia, is written in the Korean alphabet (Hangul).
69NKQ TIL that over three quarters of the grapefruit produced in Texas is from Atomic Gardening, a form of mutation breeding where plants are exposed to radiation.
oBPNK TIL that Microsoft has official anime mascots of various windows operating systems. They use these mascots to promote their products in various regions of Asia.
jN1GR TIL Major James Robertson of Australian Army once stole one of the only 20 German tanks from no man’s land, while being attacked by machine gun and mustard gas.