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TIL when you have red itchy swore eyes after swimming its caused from urine mixed with chlorine, not chlorine alone.

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4kvZ6 TIL when Lee Harvey Oswald arrived in Moscow, he said to the interpreter about his communist beliefs and intention to obtain the nationality of the USSR. For his twentieth birthday, two days after Oswald's arrival, this interpreter gives him a copy of Dostoevsky’s novel "The Idiot".
PYJlG TIL Grizzly bears have a sense of smell seven times stronger than that of a bloodhound.
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