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TIL of owl cafes a trend that is growing in japan where you can have coffee with owls.

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40LX TIL A man sued Pepsico after the company refused to redeem his 7,000,000 Pepsi Points for a AV-8 Harrier II jump jet as advertised in their commercial.
ned6G TIL: All men in the UK only got the vote in 1918
xOxB TIL the British military determined that only 1 in 100 trained female soldiers had the physical capacity to function in infantry.
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