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TIL that last time when US president formally declared a war supported by Congress was in 1942. Everything since were conflicts without war proclamation.

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5YWVB TIL Grapefruits grow in clusters like grapes, hence their name.
kapW TIL that University of Alabama’s visitors locker room is named the ‘Fail’ room after alum & donor James M. Fail, who said “I figured it was the most appropriate opportunity I would ever have to use my name”
pYBLp TIL Popeye the Sailor was originally a supporting character, intended to go away after one storyline
rMd1 TIL Canada’s 1886 Indian Act defined “person” as “an individual other than an Indian”
9wVem TIL the truck from Big Trouble in Little China ended up being owned by a trucker in Vermont, who drove it as a work truck