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TIL Helena Bonham Carter’s maternal grandfather saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War II

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xVWMk TIL about the traffic-inducing game of “leapfrog” played between truck drivers, where they get points for accumulating “bugs” (car drivers) stuck behind them as they do their “leap” in the left lane past the other trucks. The record is a 57-bug trail of cars stuck behind the leaping truck for 29 min
ANAlw TIL that a prototype television was shown to the public in 1925 at Selfridge's department store in London.
wo6l7 TIL that the United States has 44 four-star generals right now whereas in WWII there were just seven.
QJjje TIL there is no Ventriloquism for Dummies
gM0w4 TIL that the last known population of Woolly Mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean until 4,000 years ago, well into the start of human civilization and concurrent with the construction of the Great Pyramid of ancient Egypt