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TIL the Teletubbies are canonically racially diverse and they live in the "Tubbytronic Superdome"

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yMpX TIL Canadian written, Anne of Green Gables, has been in Japan’s school curriculum since 1952 and every year, many Japanese tourists travel to the province of Prince Edward Island, to visit the Green Gable farmhouse.
bjVZ TIL 903 miles from Benghazi under President Ronald Reagan in 1983, numerous warnings were ignored in the Shiite truck bombing that killed 220 US Marines in Beirut. The lead sentry had no bullets in his gun.
QkPk TIL baby elephants still need to learn how to drink using their nose, that it’s not one of their instincts.
5MjP TIL that Wisconsin’s only pirate once got the crew of an entire ship drunk then proceeded to throw them all over board. He then took the ship to Chicago and sold all the cargo.
ROVa TIL that linguists have studied the weird accent you hear in a lot of early aughts pop-punk and concluded that it’s actually a heightened version of the SoCal accent with random Chicano and British elements.