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TIL North Korea is the only nation to currently have a US Navy ship captured.

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kQ71 TIL BBC News was broadcast to Nazi occupied Europe, with live Big Ben tolls. German physicists found a way to determine the weather conditions in London based on the bell tone, thus offering invaluable help to the Luftwaffe.
jEXM TIL that the ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot
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