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TIL that the U.S. military has banned the use of ‘toe shoes’ because of 'image concerns’

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mxDMp TIL that John F. Kennedy's brother, Robert Kennedy, was assassinated as well, by a 22 year old palestinian christian
0dbap TIL when Japanese-American Norm Mineta was interned as a child, US authorities confiscated his baseball bat. Later elected to Congress, someone gifted him a $1500 Hank Aaron bat-- which he had to return, since it violated House rules on gifts. Said Mineta: "The damn government's taken my bat again."
dGGj TIL that Salvador Dalí Designed the Chupa Chups Logo
OGkp4 TIL Erica Pratt, a 7-year-old girl abducted in Philadelphia in 2002, freed herself from the basement of an abandoned house in less than 24 hours by chewing through the duct tape that bound her and breaking through a screened window to call for help.
9wN0X TIL life expectancy in the Bronze and Iron Age was 26.