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TIL a German man has been travelling around the world non-stop on a bike for over 50 years.

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X0mQE TIL that the early 1910s/1920s Winnipeg Falcons hockey team was almost entirely made up of Icelandic-Canadians who had been excluded from playing elsewhere because of their immigrant origins. They went on become the 1920 Canadian champs and represent Canada in the 1920 Olympics, where they won gold.
Br54D TIL: That a Japanese ice cream company created a commercial to publicly apologize about needing to raise the price of their ice cream bars for the first time in 25 years from 60 yen to 70 yen
x91o TIL in WWII the Russians trained dogs to run under German tanks with bombs on their backs. However, the tanks the dogs were trained to run under were Russian so they ended up running under the Russian tanks and blowing them up instead.
0wonj TIL a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate exploded in Texas in 1947. It remains the worst industrial accident in US history.
78GaO TIL that a 2012 article in New York selected Benjamin Harrison as the "most forgotten president."