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TIL The State of Wyoming has only 2 escalators

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BlrK TIL in 19th century Germany there was a man who was both the local tax collector and caretaker of the dog pound. Since tax collecting was a dangerous job, he used the pound to make a new breed a dog that would protect him while collecting. His name, Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann.
eNYk TIL that one French-Canadian soldier liberated the entire Dutch town of Zwolle during the course of an action-packed night in 1944, burning down Gestapo HQ and taking more than 100 German soldiers prisoner
B7JK TIL that Russians almost surely didn’t put frogs in their milk to preserve it.
7Qlx TIL a trans woman wasn’t allowed to change her gender marker to female at the DMV, so she went outside and took off her shirt. She was arrested, despite her license saying “Male”
9YA9M TIL There is a mysterious Sonic the Hedgehog statue randomly hidden in the mountains of Japan.