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TIL the rare 'Peter Pepper' grows to resemble a miniature male organ [NSFW]

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4EZJ TIL in 1982 a Bolivian Drug smuggler’s son was busted in the US. The drug lord sent a letter to Ronald Reagan, proposing that in exchange for his son’s liberty he would pay off Bolivia’s entire foreign debt ($3.8 billion).
5VP8D TIL before commercial air travel was invented, the term "air line" referred to railways that travelled on relatively direct, straight routes that were advertised as being faster than other rail lines
x6ZJ0 TIL about the Dunnes Stores workers strike: Ten Irish grocery workers staged a three year strike in protest of apartheid, after refusing to handle South African fruit. It led to a government ban on the importation of South African goods, and made Ireland the first western country to do so.
woyj7 TIL On September 10, 2001, a day before the September 11 attacks, Limp Bizkit received a letter from the World Trade Center thanking them for featuring the towers in their music video (Rollin').
neo9B TIL about the French "Zone Rouge", areas strictly prohibited by law from public entry and agricultural use because of an impossible amount of human remains and unexploded chemical munitions yet to be recovered from the battlefields of both world wars.