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TIL there were concentration camps in 1838 in the United States

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J1j04 TIL that piroshkis and pierogis are not the same thing. I thought it was two different pronunciations of the same thing.
m15MO TIL George Foreman named five of his kids George, as it would be easier for him to remember. “If you’re going to get hit as many times as I’ve been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield – you’re not going to remember many names.”
KOALJ TIL Chris Brown is currently banned from entereng the UK, Australia, and New Zealand due to his criminal history.
N78JQ TIL that in 2015, the US Air Force wanted to scrap the A-10, and Chuck Norris wrote a column praising it. In 2019, most of the fleet got new wings, enabling them to stay in service until late 2030s.
klME TIL that East Germany lives on - as a tiny island off Cuba. In 1972, Fidel Castro gifted the island to East Germany. The island was not addressed in the 1990 reunification, and as such is still technically East German territory, even though the nation no longer exists.