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TIL that 80 % of all cars in Kabul (Afghanistan) are Toyota Corollas

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loR7N TIL during his reign in the 630s Caliph Umar was the first to appoint police forces to keep civil order.
Z8vAa TIL during Hitler's childhood, the Jewish doctor that was treating his mother for cancer reduced his prices so she could afford treatment. Hitler never forgot this and gave him special protection during WWII as a "Noble Jew". Doctor Eduard Bloch ended up outliving Hitler himself.
vPjXj TIL: Keep Calm and Carry On was the third of three posters designed by the UK's Ministry of Information in April 1939. Nearly 2.5 million copies were printed in the weeks before WWII, but almost all were subsequently pulped when public response to the first two posters was overwhelmingly negative.
VM7yp TIL Tesgüino is a type of beer sacred to the native Tarahumara people of Mexico; they spend "at least 100 days per year directly concerned with [it]and much of this time under its influence or aftereffects."
MeDN0 TIL: That Moores law states that the number of transistors per square inch doubles every 18 months not the processing power of the hardware