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TIL about Chai tea, naan bread, and double names

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gMwVD TIL One of the first soldiers to charge the beach on D-Day was a Canadian bagpiper, who only survived because he said German Snipers thought he was to crazy to shoot
D8D TIL The Pope Believes in Evolution
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