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TIL an Oregon couple, with 2 disabled children of their own, launched a non-profit called “Magic Wheelchair” that develops and hand-crafts Halloween costume options for wheelchair-bound children

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Mo0K TIL: The Canadian government staged a large-scale Nazi invasion of Winnipeg in 1942 to promote war bonds: citizens were arrested at random, armed “German” troops searched cars and buses, businesses were raided for supplies and Union flags were torn down and replaced with the flag of the Nazi Party.
awW6J TIL The first recorded use of using a 'V' finger sign as an insult, was a Yorkshire laborer in 1901, who was flipping off the camera man for filming him
bxYa TIL TATA group(an Indian company) bought Jaguar- Land Rover from Ford as revenge for the chairman of Ford insulting TATA representatives.
d8d1E TIL in 2020, California experienced its first "gigafire" (a fire that burns more than a million acres) in modern history. The August Complex fire burned an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.
loXdK TIL about Ruth Lawrence, who got an O-level in math at 9, graduated Oxford at 13 with starred 1st class honors in math, got a second bachelor's in physics at 14, and got her PhD in math at Oxford at 17