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TIL The Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 was called Obakemono (a shape shifting monster) in Japan and Godzilla-on-wheels in Australia.

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wodDW TIL the country with the largest volume of rabbit meat consumption was China (925,000 tons), comprising approximately 62% of the total consumption and a sixfold increase over second ranked South Korea.
0dMGA TIL of Dora Richter, the first transgender woman to have received GRS in 1922/1931 in Germany. She had survived the nazi regime despite the destruction of the sexual research institute and lived to 1966
78wAx TIL on 3 December 1894, the author of Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson was talking to his wife and straining to open a bottle of wine when he suddenly exclaimed, "What's that?", then asked his wife, "Does my face look strange?", and collapsed and died a few hours later due to a stroke.
7VMP TIL that there is a garden in England devoted entirely to plants that can kill. The creator, the Duchess of Northumberland, felt that people ‘would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it and how gruesome and painful the death might be’.
ZKPp TIL the British used Pundits to explore Tibet in the 1800s. Disguised as religious pilgrims, these Indian men were trained to walk precisely 2,000 steps per mile, and mapped much of the area for the British while skirting the bans placed on westerners.