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TIL FedEx returned a volleyball that washed up after the Japanese tsunami

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rRNQW TIL that in Malmö, Sweden, it's cheaper to buy a grenade on the black market than it is to buy an ice cream cone.
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Zb84 TIL that R. Lee Ermey, the actor who played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, is the only retired US Marine to ever be promoted. He was personally promoted by the Commandant to Gunnery Sergeant, to match his rank in the movie.
w9RE TIL Henry Ford was an anti Semite who wrote International Jew, and caused some Germans to become anti Semitic after reading this book.
6EmPZ TIL that today 60 years ago the strongest earthquake ever recorded occurred (9.5), so strong it sent a 10m tsunami wave 10,000km to Hawaii.