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TIL Monica Lewinsky, as of 2014, had still not held a full-time job since leaving the Pentagon in 1997.

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QNyb6 TIL that a woman in Pennsylvania needed a life-saving liver transplant, but she kept testing positive for alcohol, which prevented her from getting a transplant, despite swearing that she hadn’t been drinking. The doctors were confused, and it later turned out that her body produced its own alcohol.
kZAW TIL Tree roots from different trees can physically fuse together; “like connecting [the] blood vessels of two different people. One tree gives the other tree a permanent transfusion.”
GYYvj TIL The United States tried to purchase Greenland for $100 million in 1946
epg7L TIL 7 Up Originally Had Lithium And Was Called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda"
kp5m TIL prior to WWII in Nazi Germany, a group of German teens known as the Edelweiss Pirates rebelled against the authoritarian Nazi regime.They intermingled with the opposite sex, grew their hair long, and wore outlawed clothes.During WWII,many spread Ally propaganda and assisted German army deserters