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TIL of the Mid Night Club who would race on Tokyo's highways in excess of 200 mph in highly modified street cars.

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pR6e TIL, in a rare case of mutualism, a pod of Orcas in Australia would help hunt, capture, and kill Baleen whales.
KExR TIL ten French villages were destroyed during The Great War and deemed uninhabitable afterwards. Today, these ten villages are known as a “village that died for France.”
9YmQQ TIL that Pixar producer Darla K. Anderson used to play practical jokes on director Andrew Stanton. As revenge, Stanton named the fish killer in Finding Nemo after her.
gMZm8 TIL almost no babies are born with Down Syndrome in Iceland, because nearly 100 percent of women who receive a positive test for the condition choose to terminate the pregnancy.
nlOB TIL In 1876, the Sultan of Turkey gave marijuana to the United States as a gift. By 1880, Turkish smoking parlors were opened all over the northeastern U.S.