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TIL Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day in the same year.

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0bgM TIL in terms of health, rich Americans are no better off than poor Britons.
dDX7r Til there's no such thing as the Transatlantic Coal Seam, there was never a coal seam that extended from South Wales to Pennsylvania
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Z8LPY TIL: After D-Day landings, French women having babies with German soldiers were punished by shaving their heads bald. They were paraded in the streets, marked with black ink, and even stripped half naked. This was done so that everyone would know they betrayed their country.