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TIL irish people were also enslaved in the americas

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Jb4k TIL A Russian cargo plane was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistian with six crew members aboard. After being held captive in Kandahar for over a year, the crewmen were able to overpower their captors, retake their plane and fly it out of Afghanistan to safety.
p84AN TIL that Nature Chemistry, a scientific journal, has published a painstakingly researched list of all consumer products verified to be chemical-free on one of their blogs.
JYPYV TIL Tom Hanks has been gifting the White House press corps with new coffee machines since 2004 after visiting and finding an old decrepit Mr. Coffee machine serving really bad coffee. Latest was a $1700 espresso machine in 2017.
Brr1D TIL chickens used to be fitted with rose tinted glasses to reduce instances of chicken cannibalism and to help prevent attacks on injured birds.
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