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TIL about the 1986-87 Conflict between Chad and Libya is known as the 'Toyota War' due to sheer number of Toyotas used by Chad in the conflict. It is the only car brand with a war named after it.

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ADe7w TIL Olympians prior to and following their events hold massive parties or benders at the “Olympic Village” built in the hosting country. With tension and hormones running rampant, and in the comfort of a press free environment, festivities often include heavy drinking, wild sex, and even orgies.
ydPw TIL Police found a man wearing a rucksack full of rocks who had been shot in the head, put into a sack, and fastened with cable ties before he hit the water. The death was ruled a suicide.
nr7 TIL a man proposed to his girlfriend by contacting a level-developer to make a Portal 2 custom level that led into a wedding chapel in which Ellen McLain (the voice of GLaDOS) popped the question.
KaMG TIL on April 5, 1943 the Destroyer USS O'Bannon encountered a Japanese submarine. Too close to fire their guns, the crew threw potatoes at the Japanses sailors, who thought they were grenades, distracting them long enough to get distance from the sub, fire their guns, and eventually sink it.
9wnxm TIL whilst filming of The Island of Dr. Moreau multiple disasters occurred including radiation poisoning, floods and the suicide of Marlon Brando’s daughter. As director Richard Stanley was on the phone to his Mum in Ireland at the time explaining this, her house was struck by lightning.