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TIL that country singer George Strait and Jeff Bezos are cousins.

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pYBkA TIL that everyone has a dominant eye, which is usually the same as their dominant hand.
DQ07r TIL Japan used a biological attack during WW2 which was largely covered up after the war.
p8Ka4 TIL Siegel and Shuster created Kryptonite in 1940, in an unpublished Superman story 3 years before it appeared on the radio show. DC Comics rejected the story because among other things Superman revealed his secret identity to Lois, causing their relationship to change and upsetting the status quo.
ym5p TIL in 1984 McDonald’s ran a promotion where customers scratched off a ticket with the name of an Olympic event on it, and if the U.S. won that event then they would be given a free menu item. The promotion became a near financial disaster due to the Soviet boycott.
yQMDe TIL that the first bomb that fell on Berlin from the Allies in WWII didn’t kill anyone except the one and only elephant of the Berlin zoo.