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TIL haggis has been banned from being imported into the US since 1971 due to a ban on food containing sheep lung

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e0aWb TIL in 1989, 2 million people joined hands and formed a human chain spanning 675.5 kilometres (419.7 mi) across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuanua. They were peacefully demonstrating for independence for their countries from the Soviet Union.
4XAm6 TIL: General Motors hired Prostitutes to discredit Ralph Nader
WLJY TIL that out of the 12 high profile BP whistle-blowers, 9 are mysteriously dead, 1 nearly died in a brutal assassination attempt, 1 is imprisoned under questionable charges, and another has simply disappeared
NOnN TIL Muhammad Ali managed to talk a suicidal man out of jumping to his death after police and psychologists had failed.
oBXyR TIL John Hinckley Jr's motive for attempting to assassinate Ronald Reagan was to try and woo Jodie Foster, emulating Robert De Niro's character from the film Taxi Driver