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TIL that the state drink of Indiana is water.

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APkl TIL an endurance athlete, Dean Karnazes, ran 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep in 2005
VBXx8 TIL The bones of the fallen soldiers at Waterloo were exhumed from mass graves, ground down into bone-meal and used in the production of sugar at nearby sugar manufacturing plants. Also bones of the fallen were commonly ground into bone-meal and used as fertilizer.
malp TIL of Rotherham, England. A town where approx. 1400 sexual child abuse cases occurred but were never solved because those in charge didn’t want to be deemed as racist and for fear of losing job.
N7pL8 TIL Princess Diana was a descendant of Charles II via two of his illegitimate children; since Charles II never had any legitimate children, Prince William will, if crowned, be the first descendant of Charles II to be King
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