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TIL Jay Leno, who has an impressive car collection, once restored a 1955 Mercedes found in the desert, which is now worth $1.8 Million.

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koY7 TIL Warner Bros donates royalties made from their Tasmanian Devil character to help fight a facial tumour that is decimating the native species
6EVGY TIL When Sacha Baron Cohen was being threatened by the Kazakhstan government with legal action, he replied as his character, Borat: "I'd like to state that I have no connection with Mr. Cohen and fully support my government decision to sue this Jew."
grKny TIL that in pre-modern China, poor families adopted girls to make sure their sons will be able to marry in future while other poor families with unwanted girls gave away their daughters.
PNWO TIL that the Z in Dragon Ball Z was chosen because Z is the last letter of the alphabet and Akira Toriyama wanted to finish the series because he was running out of ideas
16RPW TIL shortly after midnight on the morning of June 13, 1942, four Nazis landed on a beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York from a German submarine.