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TIL in North Korea the trucks are powered by burning wood.

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Y7YrW TIL that after learning about the atrocities committed during the Battle of Manila, dictator of Spain Francisco Franco considered declaring war on Japan and joining the allies, 40 years after the Philippines became independent from Spain.
9YBZr TIL the only avian dinosaurs to survive the asteroid mass extinction event were no larger than a duck and still had teeth.
lo8ZV TIL One bite from the Lone Star Tick can cause a permanent allergy to meat.
yQVr8 TIL of the Gävle goat- a giant straw goat display that has been built in the Swedish town of Gävle every year since 1966 in anticipation of Christmas. It's been destroyed a total 36 of those years. It will be back this year on December 2nd.
51k8 TIL that a string of typographical symbols (such as “@#$%&!”) used to represent an obscenity or swearword is called a “grawlix”