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TIL that Moroccan troops fought on both sides of the First Indochina War.

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78JQL TIL that Samuel L. Jackson was not supposed to wear jheri curls in “Pulp Fictions”. He was going to wear an afro, but that wig was brought to the set by mistake.
KOob4 TIL that in 1998 grade school children in Aurora, Colorado, collect $35,000 to purchase and free slave children in Sudan.
wodeJ TIL "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is the longest continuously running Christmas TV special in the United States, having aired yearly since 1964.
8eNrZ TIL of Snooker Plus, a variant of the game which had 2 additional balls. Orange was worth 8 points and purple was worth 10.
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