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TIL "The Chicken Tax" has caused Light Trucks to not be imported into America because of a %25 tariff from the 60's.

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VBn1B TIL Carrie Fisher’s ashes were placed inside a giant Prozac Pill
b9vX0 TIL Philadelphia Police bombed a Pro-Black movement in 1985, killing 11 people, including 5 children. The only person to go to jail, was the only survivor.
R9W9 TIL Vulture stomach systems are so strong they can process anthrax, cholera, and botulism. Their feces is completely sterile which cleans their legs (since they’ve been walking in the stuff most likely) and cools them down (they can’t sweat).
R7MJ8 TIL of Gino Bartali, a cyclist who used his fame as a winner of the Tour de France to smuggle counterfeit documents hidden inside his bicycle through Nazi checkpoints in WWII Italy under the guise of training. These documents allowed as many as 800 Jews to escape persecution by the Nazis.
v101r TIL: That Third Reich was the first country to lead an anti-tobacco campaign