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TIL most worms are actually a bright pink, but look brown because of their habitat and diet.

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4X5rR TIL Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, ran and won his campaign from prison. Once elected president, he released himself.
jN1wv TIL “Game of Thrones” actor Kit Harington’s ancestor invented the first flushing toilet for Queen Elizabeth I, called the “John Harington.” It was later just referred to as “the john.”
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