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TIL the Easter Island heads also have bodies.

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XE1XX TIL that Canada consumes the most doughnuts and has the most doughnut shops per capita of any country in the world
X0VAR TIL that around 15,000 US soldiers died in Pilot training during WW2. They lost 65,164 planes during the war but only 22,948 was lost in combat.
oBOX7 Today I learned that Tame Impala was accused of plagiarizing South American pop early 90s icon "Pablito Ruiz"
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