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TIL that European trucks are rarely sold in the US was due to a 25% retaliatory tariff (aka the "Chicken Tax") on European trucks, which was put into place after European countries got together and imposed tariffs on imported chickens from the US.

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0wAV5 TIL: Paypal can and will place a hold on your funds for 180 days and permanently limit your business account at their discretion. They do NOT have to give you any reason for doing so according to their User Agreement. Even if you want to fix whatever they say is wrong, you CANNOT know what to fix.
xVAQk TIL President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda hold the Guinness World Record for "Greatest Robbery of a Government". They stole hundreds of millions of dollars causing the total national loss from between $5 and $10 billion
rRWWo TIL organizers of the Woodstock festival claimed to the authorities in Bethel, NY, that less than 50,000 people would turn up, despite selling 186,000 tickets in advance. The festival ultimately drew an audience of over 400,000, and both Bethel and NY State banned such events in its wake.
b94e9 TIL Cuckoo wasps, like their namesake the cuckoo bird, are kleptoparasitic, having evolved to lay their eggs in the nests of other species of wasps. Their brilliant metallic colors are produced by light refracting through open spaces between six layers of cuticle in the wasps’ exoskeletons.
a80DL TIL in 2004, 6 British soldiers got trapped in a Mexican cave and caused tensions between the two countries. Mexico didn’t know what they were doing there.