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TIL that the surname “Kennedy” means “ugly head” in Gaelic.
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TIL The Battle of Verdun was the longest battle of World War I. It started on February 21st 1916 and ended on December 16th 1916. With duration of 303 days it is the longest battle in human history. With an estimated total casualty figure of 1.25 million.
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TIL that in 2012, the advertising campaign for a UK energy drink called “Pussy” was banned as sexually explicit and offensive. Pussy energy drink ad slogan was: “The drink’s pure, it’s your mind that’s the problem.”
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TIL about the Hymenocera picta or harlequin shrimp, which feeds exclusively on starfish, including the venomous barbed crown-of-thorns starfish. These shrimp are able to flip a starfish onto its back to avoid its defenses and feed on its soft tissues.
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TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, former premier of the Soviet Union, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial
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TIL the perpetrator of the My Lai massacre had a life sentence of hard labor commuted to 3 years house arrest by President Nixon.