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TIL they clean the Taj Mahal with mud

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nbvY TIL that in 1928, Lyndon B. Johnson paused his studies to teach Mexican-American children, and used his own salary to buy volleyballs and softball bats for them.
69NPQ TIL that Smokey The Bear had received so many gifts of honey and letters that he had to have his own Zip Code.
45l6 TIL the Holodomor Genocide was a man made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine from 1932-1933.
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