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TIL Manny Pacquiao ran away from home and lived in a cardboard box after his drunk father ate his dog.

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Kjmw TIL Dutch drivers are taught to open the car door with their right hand, so they have to look over their left shoulder, allowing them to see a bicyclist before they accidentally “door” them.
drod TIL the Mexican Air Force squadron known as the “Aztec Eagles” played a role in the Pacific Theater of World War II, providing air support for the Allies and putting an estimated 30,000 Japanese troops out of action.
PKn TIL Malcolm X dodged the draft by telling the enlisting officer that he couldn’t wait to “Steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers!”
6EOYY TIL In 1960 between 14-55 million people died of starvation in China due to famine and human error, this wasn't known to the English-speaking world until 1993.
woy78 TIL that Warren G. Harding is the only twentieth-century president to have never been portrayed in a movie.