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TIL Mark Twain was a confederate solider.

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98V6 TIL Singapore lasted less than 2 years as a state of Malaysia before racial riots forced separation. Singapore is the only country to have gained independence against its will.
X0wKD TIL Guinness World Records and Ripley Entertainment (Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!) are owned by the same conglomerate based in Vancouver, BC.
woYQ1 TIL dogs can be blood donors
NX6Y6 TIL That during the Civil War, there were times when billiard results received wider coverage than war news.
b6vlE TIL about Project Plowshare, a project by the US government to allow nuclear explosives for commercial use, such as oil extraction. It was ended over concerns about radiation in the air and fuel extracted being to radioactive to use.