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TIL The 1960s Batman with Adam West was known for it’s morals and lessons, which included the importance of seat belts, homework, eating vegetables, and drinking milk

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GY7mE TIL of Cannibal Island - a small island in Siberia where the Soviet Union forcibly deported 6,000 citizens. They were abandoned with few supplies and only flour for food. Disease and cannibalism quickly ran rampant and after 13 weeks, 2/3 of the original deportees were dead.
gME4L TIL United States granted citizenship to Puerto Ricans in 1917 to allow them to be drafted to participate in World War I. Approximately 20,000 Puerto Ricans were drafted.
Y7rr TIL “Manute Bol is the tallest player in the history of the National Basketball Association. He is also the only player in the NBA to have killed a lion with a spear and to have paid 80 cows for his wife.”
6ElJw TIL Around 40,000 Irish fought for the Confederate Army in the US Civil War
6EOMY TIL Platypus does not have a stomach. Also in its genome some of the key genes involved in gastric sections are deleted, including genes for acid production.