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TIL During the battle of 5 de mayo most of the people of Puebla supported The French for the Restoration of the Mexican Empire

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5V85n TIL if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
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J1Nr1 TIL King Kalakaua of Hawai'i was the first Monarch to Circumnavigate the world in 1881
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