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TIL Kentucky has more barrels of borboun than people.

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E10WP TIL about Onfim, a boy from 13th century Novgorod whose homework and drawings have been preserved by time
vPw6D TIL that the Hellenic Navy operates an ancient Greek trireme as an officially commissioned military ship
607W TIL that the original take of the famous WW2 photo “Raising a Flag over the Reichstag” had to be edited before it was published because the Soviet soldier could be seen wearing multiple watches which had been stolen from German citizens
J1yXB TIL that McDonald’s serves spaghetti in the Philippines which comes with a side of “McDo” fried chicken.
Lk1ZQ TIL the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap in the Nixon tapes was not one gap, but five to nine separate erasures. The tape is preserved in the National Archives in the hope we may someday recover what was erased.