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TIL that on July 2, 2013 the United States repealed a law that prohibited the government from paying to distribute propaganda.

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ZpwPB TIL Pirates wore eye patches to increase their night vision, not to cover a missing eye.
BgpPd TIL "Below the fold" is referring to the bottom half of a newspaper.
6EomY TIL of Eva Umlauf, a Jew who arrived in Auschwitz at the age of two in 1944. Despite her young age, she was tattooed with her camp number: A26959. Getting it was so painful, that she passed out. Her mother was a digit lower. Eva thinks she was the youngest child to have been tattooed who survived.
5VN7D TIL: Due to a protruding left eye, Keller was usually photographed in profile until she had her eyes replaced with glass replicas for "medical and cosmetic reasons".
OBee TIL that apple seeds contain 0.6mg of hydrogen cyanide per gram of seed, meaning that if a person were to eat about half of a cup of apple seeds, he or she would die of cyanide poisoning.