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til: shirley temple actually disliked the drink named after her. "people think it's funny, i hate them. (it's) too sweet"

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mxl6M TIL of Chen Sheng, a military captain who was ordered to lead 900 men to battle but realised he would not make it in time and that they would be executed. Instead he started a rebellion that led to the fall of the dynasty ruling at the time.
4X08a TIL that according to a declassified document, the the Pentagon's intelligence agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, believes that remote viewing is real and that it aided them in capturing a ship with 6 tons of Thai marijuana on it.
A6PB TIL: A university researcher has developed a tattoo removal cream.
Edl0 TIL that with all its renewable energy, on a sunny and windy day, Germany doesn’t need to run its conventional power plants