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TIL Ketchup used to be sold as medicine claiming to cure diarrhea

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78G9P TIL that the “myth of the clean Wehrmacht,” the notion that the regular German army wasn’t involved in Nazi war crimes, was promoted by US leadership to facilitate German rearmament amid Cold War tensions.
oRP0r Til that Sir Sean Connery last movie was a 2012 animated film called “Sir Billi”. About a retired veterinarian (Sir Sean Connery) living in a remote Scottish village encounters a goat who thinks he’s a dog, an Admiral who’s afraid of the water, and a beaver who was raised by rabbits.
Wkb7N TIL that Fawzia Koofi, an Afghan peace negotiator and women's rights activist suggested to the Taliban that they should also bring women to the table. They laughed immediately
KXpR TIL A Bond girl (from “For Your Eyes Only”) Caroline Cossey was born a man, Barry Cossey.
WkP18 TIL that China poured more concrete in the 3 years after 2010 than the US did in the entire 20th century.