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TIL Mel Gibson was dropped from The Hangover Part ll because the cast wasn’t comfortable working with him after allegations of spousal abuse

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PYAPe TIL that British and American commanders ensured the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was a "Whites Only" victory. Most of Charles De Gaulle's Free French Army were African colonial soldiers who fought valiantly to liberate Paris but were stripped of uniform, sent home and denied pensions.
gMR0D TIL in U.S. criminal cases, more than 90% of defendants plead guilty rather than go to trial
Zp9MY TIL about a group of chimpanzees that use tools to collect honey
klYB TIL before starting Wendy’s, Dave Thomas worked under Colonel Sanders at KFC and even invented their widely used KFC chicken bucket
ol0o TIL that in Luxembourg you must be trilingual (French, German, Luxembourgish) to graduate secondary school