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TIL that Elmo, Santa Claus, and Saddam Hussein all have keys to the city of Detroit

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Q4bk TIL in May of 1945, a Sunday School Teacher and 5 children became the only Mainland Casualties of WWII when they found a Japanese “Balloon Bomb” in Rural Oregon. The last words of the Teacher were: “Look what I found, dear”
69b17 TIL using special aquariums, a team of researchers proved that some flowers that grow in the ocean are pollinated by plankton and invertebrates just like flowers on land. Inside each flower is a nutritious substance filled with pollen that sticks to the animals when they move from flower to flower
4XJxJ TIL that the worldwide production of the Volkswagen Beetle ended on 2003, 65 years after its original launch.
D10Lr TIL that in 19th-century England, green indicated homosexual affiliations. Victorian gay men would often pin a green carnation on their lapel as popularized by openly gay author Oscar Wilde, who often wore one on his lapel.
XRor TIL white rice raises blood sugar more than sugary drinks