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TIL: WWF Wrestler Kurt Angle is an Olympic Gold Medalist

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Br4AW TIL In 1946 Yoshio Tamiya started a sawmill and lumber company in Shizuok, Japan. With an ample supply of raw material available, Tamiya soon began producing wooden model ships, and by the early 1950s the company had transitioned its business solely to model making and it also has a model museum
ADR5o TIL that the last execution by guillotine in France took place in 1977.
GY6Z5 TIL that a woman in France received a telephone bill of nearly 12 quadrillion euros. The phone company initially told her there was nothing they could do to amend the statement and offered to set up instalments to pay off the bill. Eventually, they admitted their mistake, and waived it altogether
NXjON TIL that in the US there is a "French Fry Certification Pin", created in 2024, there has only been 1 person who has been awarded it in it's history
NXLMN TIL there exists a research group dedicated to identifying and classifying plastic bread clips - the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group (HORG)