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TIL that during the Serbo-Bulgarian war in 1885, Serbia signed a one day armistice in order to allow Red Cross aid convoys to pass through Serbia into Bulgaria who had no medical corps. Serbia also donated some of their own supplies to Bulgaria.

dDVVE TIL that American chocolate tastes like puke to most Europeans, due to the inclusion of butyric acid to preserve the milk. In Europe, the cows live much closer to the chocolate factories
XWrQ TIL that most Kpop (Korean Pop) stars are molded for years in ‘bootcamps’ where they are charged for their housing and dance/singing lessons, before being signed under “slave contracts” that allow their agencies to control their wardrobe, diets, love lives, and their behavior.
awr9Z TIL after JFK was assassinated, the Soviet KGB immediately began looking into Vice President Johnson suspecting a coup, and after some intel wok some reported "possession of data purporting to indicate that President Johnson was responsible."
p8kVG TIL that "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers", two of America's most iconic advice columnists, were identical twin sisters born Pauline Esther and Esther Pauline Friedman, respectively.
lOoa TIL the famous party song, “Fight for Your Right” by the Beastie Boys, was actually a parody of the party lifestyle. Mike D commented, “The only thing that upsets me is that we might have reinforced certain values of some people in our audience when our own values were actually totally different…”