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TIL Nelson Mandela was only removed from the US terror watchlist in 2008

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V05k TIL ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ by Van Morrison is about an interracial relationship and was originally titled 'Brown Skinned Girl’
VMlw4 TIL: billboards featuring naked breasts caused 517 traffic accidents in 1 day.
ADNQx TIL that between 1856-1866 the United States Military experimented with a "Camel Corps" for use in the Southwestern United States.
KOJJG TIL that the Vikings, after having settled Greenland, started to export 'Unicorn Horns'
woxKo TIL that Austria, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, and Switzerland were technically "third world countries", because they were not officially aligned with NATO (first world) or the Warsaw Pact (second world) during the Cold War. The term does not actually have anything to do with quality of life.