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TIL: Nearly 150 babies were named Khaleesi in 2012.

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OGLMg TIL that, in 1946, Ho Chi Min reached out to President Harry S. Truman and requested the United States’ support in ending French rule in Vietnam.
yQGX TIL that, if you discount the Bible, there was no record of Jewish enslavement in Egypt
7ryW7 TIL that the name "Ivan the Terrible" reflects the older English usage of terrible as in "inspiring fear or terror; dangerous; or powerful" and not the more modern connotations in English where terrible means "defective" or "evil".