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TIL There is no month where there isn’t a chance of frost in Minnesota.

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0w8Vv TIL that in 1963 a man from eastern Germany stole a tank and drove it into the Berlin wall, fleeing to the western side of the country
xy01 TIL that when the Emperor told his people that Japan was surrendering in WWII, almost no one understood his Classical Japanese dialect!
vmr8 TIL When the Ottoman empire attacked Skenderbeg’s town (1450), he put candles on the horns of goats and sent them into the mountains at night. As the Ottomen attacked a herd of goats, Skenderbeg defeated their massive army from by a rear attack.
oBa5K TIL Sparta called itself Lacedaemon, which is why the symbol for Sparta is the Greek letter Lambda
ZovR TIL 8,900 children in the USA receive amputations each year due to lawn mower accidents