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TIL that although the British regiment of Charles Roberts were massive drunks, they still managed to capture Fort Mackinac from the Americans in 1812, without a single loss of life.

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loZyB TIL about the Andean potato preservation technique: Chuño which can be stored for decades.
dQWZ TIL that the, “No Child Left Behind Act” requires high schools to give out personal information to military recruiters.
QGv9 TIL The most widely used map today, known as the Mercator projection map, depicts the continents’ sizes distorted, for example, Alaska appears to be three times larger than Mexico, although Mexico actually is larger than Alaska
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