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TIL in the Senate, there is a desk with a drawer, filled with candy of the of the designated Senator’s choice.

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LkLmP TIL there is a village in the UAE, Nahva, wich is an enclave within an enclave. Oman is surrounding a small piece of the UAE, forming a counter-enclave.
PYXlw TIL The woman killed in the Gare Montparnasse accident was filling in for her husband at his newspaper stand
BVDk TIL in 2012, a petition was created urging the U.S. government to create a Death Star, which gained more than 25,000 signatures, enough to qualify for an official response.
wLA9Y til that in the 1952 Olympics, Luxembourg won a gold medal which was so unexpected that the band did not know their national anthem and instead had to improvise and played gibberish.
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