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TIL the Nancy Drew books were extensively revised in 1959 to eliminate racist stereotypes

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p8pb4 TIL that James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, is the only president to have military experience without having been an officer. He was a private in the Pennsylvania militia in 1814.
8ajRa TIL that the left and right hemispheres of the brain must work together to understand puns; the left processes the linguistics, and the right analyses the punchline's double meaning
LkpDP TIL Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe from the sitcom Friends) published an academic paper in neurology the same year that Friends debuted on TV.
W7ynd TIL "Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung" is the longest german word without any repeating letters. 24 in total.
OoWAL TIL that the Netherlands is ranked #2 in the entire world in terms of total food exports.