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TIL the Dutch word for ‘tramp stamp’ is literally translated as 'arse antlers’

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wope8 TIL the "red telephone" for the Moscow-Washington hotline was never a real red phone. Initially a Teletype link, it switched to fax in 1986, and since 2008, it's a secure computer link for email communication. The connection has always been Kremlin-Pentagon and not to the White House.
p8VWe TIL Tom Nook from Animal Crossing is not a racoon in the original Japanese translation, but a tanuki (hence his name.) The animal is portrayed as a mischievous trickster in Japanese folklore.
kOWEg TIL The highest recorded fall without a parachute happened in 1972 at 33,333 ft. The victim, Vesna Vulović was in the hospital for 16 months after the fall.
R7M08 TIL that Metro Meteor, a retired champion racehorse, has paintings that have sold for over $2000 and the money is used for treatments that are saving his own life
EE60 TIL that the German army has over a thousand troops in the US, with a headquarters outside Washington DC