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[TIL] Pregnancy Tests are one of the most shoplifted items in the U.S.

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ArVB TIL it takes 600 cows to make one full season’s worth of NFL footballs.
Pm5L TIL Matt LeBlanc, who played Joey in Friends, and comedian Louis CK were classmates in both junior high and high school. Yearbook photos in link.
LQW4P TIL of a folk song called “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore”. A Black gospel song first sung by former slaves whose owners had abandoned them on the sea Islands by South Carolina. The boat symbolises a way to freedom from the tyrannies of slavery
dDVoZ TIL about the Anglo-Zanzibar War, which took place on August 27, 1896. It was just a thirty-eight minute war between the British Empire and the East African island nation of Zanzibar, making it the shortest war in history.
KVBG TIL of a WWII war crime committed by a US bomber against a German U-boat rescuing allied civilians. It has been suppressed by the US and Germany alike, in Germany because it paints Nazis in a positive light.