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TIL that German chocolate cake was invented in Texas
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TIL that WiFi does not stand for Wireless Fidelity - it stands for nothing. It's a word coined by a marketing firm that means nothing.
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TIL that Brazil participated in WW2, the only independent South American country to do so. The 25,000-troop Brazilian Expeditionary Force worked alongside the Allies, and managed to take 20,573 Axis prisoners, consisting of two generals, 892 officers and 19,679 other ranks.
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TIL that if a child loses their fingertip it may sometimes grow back (nail, bone and all), though without a fingerprint.
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TIL Gary Lineker once said “Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.”
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TIL a man was so angry that teenagers pranked him by ringing his doorbell and leaving that he rammed their car with his causing them to hit a tree at high speed, killing three of him; he was sentenced to life in prison