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TIL that the Grand Mosque of Paris provided refuge and muslim IDs for Jews trying to escape the clutches of the axis powers and the holocaust during WW II.

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R7Jdl TIL: in the 1960s a boy smuggled in three giant African snails into Florida, and later released them. Within seven years there were an estimated 18,000 of the creatures in the wild, taking 10 years and over $1M to eradicate.
xm51 TIL: There is a tax that called a TIF in Niagara Falls which is entirely voluntary to pay, tourists can ask to have it removed from their bills if they know about it. It pulls in roughly 15 Million a year from tourists with no regulation or tracking on where the money goes after being collected.
KYbE6 TIL that Smokey the Bear was in fact a REAL bear.
LmxP TIL that NBA Jam game designer Mark Turmell, a Detroit Pistons fan, hated the Chicago Bulls so much that 1993 NBA Jam game was actually rigged against the Chicago Bulls so that the Bulls would miss “clutch shots” and their stats would lower when playing the Pistons
vPBw8 TIL that the fan made Garfield strip Jon Snaps is based on the June 26th, 2005 strip.