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Today I learned that you shouldn't put rubbing alcohol on a wound. All those screams of pain were for nothing!

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JY4PB TIL that John Wayne provided the voice of Imperial spy Garindan in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope via stock audio, making this his last role in a film before his death.
PYjYw TIL that a 2.85m statue of former President Bush stands in an Albanian town to show appreciation for US-led NATO airstrikes in 1999
axOM TIL that When the dominant male in a troop of gorillas dies or is killed, then the troop will go their separate ways and find new groups to be a part of. However, if a younger male challenges the leader and wins then he becomes the new leader and the troop stays intact.
awngb TIL that the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the first of its kind in the US, was formed in 1961 by a group of Holocaust survivors who met during ESL classes at Hollywood High School. Their personal artifacts, photographs, and memories became the museum’s initial primary collection.
v10x7 TIL there are 44 Kmart stores still in operation, with 6 in Puerto Rico, 4 in the US Virgin Islands, and 1 in Guam