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TIL that most jokes about Germany are just about Bavaria. That is because the american occupation zone wa in bavaria and they mostly witnessed their culture and assumed that all of Germany is like Bavaria.

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Y760v TIL that the theft of milk-crates accounts for approximately $80 million in annual losses. Despite 95% of the theft stemming from organized crime, the protecting legislation inadvertently gave law-enforcement the power to criminalize the possession of even a single crate by one individual.
e0abk TIL the dwarf actors in the 1987 film The Garbage Pail Kids Movie could only survive in their costumes for five to seven minutes before their oxygen depleted, so a paramedic with a stop watch was required on set in order to keep the takes quick, and the actors from asphyxiating.
MekKW TIL Elephants resist cancer because of a gene called P53 that can either order repair of a damaged cell, or order to kill it. Most of the time P53 chooses the latter. The LIF6 gene carries out the orders to eliminate the cancerous cells.
nJVr TIL Eric Clapton said some very racist things. “This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want f*****g wogs living next to me.”
v1Dxx TIL that footballers Olivier Giroud and Presnel Kimpembe voiced the Green Goblin and Scorpion in the French dub of Spiderman: New Generation