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TIL that although 20 US Presidents served in the military and most of them during war time, only President Kennedy was awarded a Purple Heart.

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DQPWr TIL that the most southern building in the British Isles is a toilet located in Minquiers, in the island of the same name in Jersey, close to France north coast
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RB51 TIL Texas abolished “Last Meal” before execution because a prisoner, Lawrence Russell Brewer, requested a 5 course meal and ate nothing of it because he “wasn’t hungry after all”
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