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TIL that TV dinners were invented as a way to use up 260 tons of leftover, frozen turkey that Swanson didn't know what to do with after Thanksgiving.

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NX4Me TIL: WW1 Armistice Day was Nov 11th, fighting was to cease at 11:00 AM. An American solider charged a German machine gun nest with 16 mins left, and died at 10:59 AM. The last soldier to die in WWI.
8Dm4 TIL that there is a punctuation mark called an “interrobang”. It is the name given to “?!”.
N7gyN TIL There is no Wal-Mart in NYC
jEKR TIL The US Navy still operates wooden ships.
9YG46 TIL Gina Torres (Dozer’s widow in Matrix Reloaded and of course Zoe from Firefly) is a classically-and-jazz-trained mezzo-soprano and speaks fluid Spanish