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TIL that Honda sold a rebadged version of the 90s era Land Rover Discovery in Japan

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XEpV8 TIL nearly the entire world uses one of 2 forms to say tea, basically derived from the Chinese words 'te' (ie Spanish & English) and 'cha' (ie Hindi & Russian), because of the way tea spread around the world from China. 'Cha' used in places where tea came by land and 'te' where imported over water
BgWGy Today I learned that in Niger, you have to be 23 years old to drive a car.
XElQP TIL that powered airships were invented before radio, the Origin of species, and the Lincoln Administration
kOgdW TIL there's a town in Texas called White Settlement. The area was called "white" because it was a settlement of white homesteaders, as opposed to other settlements in the vicinity that were composed of both white and Native American residents.
MDB TIL that there is a German word for the sound which occurs when you’re rummaging for the right LEGO piece: Gruschteling