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TIL: Root beer and MDMA are both made from the sassafras tree
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TIL The King of Thailand was born a Citizen of the United States
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TIL Despite the fact that Jesse Owens won four gold medals during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, US President Franklin Roosevelt never congratulated or invited him to the White House. ‘Hitler didn’t snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me,’ Owens said
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TIL that in the ‘Clerks’ credits, the boom mike holder was credited as 'Whoever grabbed the pole’.
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TIL that there was an Indian Legion, also known as the "Indische Freiwilligen Legion der Waffen-SS", that joined the Nazis and fought in France, Italy, and the Battle of Berlin. Their goal was to gain independence for British-ruled India.
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TIL: People with the sickle cell mutation have crescent (sickle) shaped blood cells that provide resistance against malaria.