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TIL carrots are orange because of the dutch who used it to honor their leader in the battle for independence

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XEJWR TIL: That John Wilkes Booth was a well-known A-list actor, considered equivalent in status to Leonardo DiCaprio. He was a heartthrob and named “Sexiest Man Alive”
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