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TIL that the sitcom Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. was set in a marine base 1964 to 1969. The word ‘Vietnam’ was never once mentioned in it’s 5 year run.

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Mwl0 TIL: That Samuel L. Jackson has a slight stutter. To help himself avoid stuttering he would “pretend to be people who didn’t stutter”, and used the curse word, motherf@*&%er as an affirmation word
kJwvg TIL that in 1866, one year after the end of the Civil War, 1/5th of the state budget of Mississippi was spent on artificial limbs.
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awr9Z TIL after JFK was assassinated, the Soviet KGB immediately began looking into Vice President Johnson suspecting a coup, and after some intel wok some reported "possession of data purporting to indicate that President Johnson was responsible."
mxdwE TIL Flo-Jo's world record in the 200 meters from 1988 somehow still stands. No woman has run that distance faster in over 30 years.