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TIL According to the Smithsonian, 7-Eleven was the first retailer in America to install self-serve beverage stations

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ZRAp TIL that finnish people recieves a top hat and a sword when completing their doctoral degree.
pY70N TIL about The Guatemalan Syphilis Experiment was a medical experiment conducted by the United States government from 1946 to 1948, which involved intentionally infecting Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers, and mental health patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases without their con
7nNP TIL that Khawla Bint Al Azwar was a muslim female warrior who disguised herself as a man until her identity was revealed, then she was given command of an army to attack the Byzantines.
lNQK TIL in 2005 a heavily censored document from the Pentagon was declassified when a reader cut and pasted the text into word, making the censored parts visible.
XrX8 TIL 14th century Welsh poet Dafydd ap Gwilym wrote poems all about the Penis, going to church purely to ogle the local women and being chased away by the husbands of women he was having affairs with.