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r1N0 TIL The organization (OCEARCH) that tagged 2 great white sharks off of Cape Cod in September has an interactive shark tracker on their website so you can see where Genie and Mary Lee are hanging out.
16yLV TIL there is a research station called Troll in Antarctica
GYRjg TIL of Buffalo Child Long Lance, an American journalist, writer and actor from North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes. He was a darling of Hollywood cocktail parties until it was discovered that he was part black, a fact that ended his career.
aaZb TIL the Nissan Z series was originally named the Fairlady by the president of Nissan in Japan. The U.S. head knew this wouldn’t appeal to the American male market, so he removed the Fairlady labels from the cars that arrive in the U.S. and replaced them with the internal code for the project, 240-Z
LN8P TIL: In 2006, Hungarian protesters hotwired a 50 year old Soviet T-34 tank that was part of an outdoor memorial and drove it against the riot police.