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TIL of Tarrare, an unusual man with an insatiable appetite who was able to eat vast amounts of food whole without chewing, to include live animals and human corpses. He was slim, but with enormous teeth and slack wrinkly skin. His body was also hot to the touch and would sweat profusely after eating

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gMGED TIL John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" was declared by Congress as the National March of the United States in 1987, over 90 years after it was first composed
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