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TIL White Star Line billed the families for uniforms of staff who died on the Titanic

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mn9o TIL that the United Kingdom and Portugal have the oldest alliance and peace treaty in the world that is still in force — with the earliest treaty dating back to the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373.
gNKy TIL Yul Brynner died of lungcancer in 1985. After his dead, he had a commercial aired: ‘Now that I’m gone, I tell you: 'Don’t smoke, whatever you do, just don’t smoke.’
W7M6A TIL Grover Cleveland first met his future wife while she was still an infant, and he bought her her first baby carriage.
R5a77 TIL of the WWII Kaimingjie Germ Weapon Attack, a Japanese biological warfare germ strike attack on Chinese cities using fleas infected with cholera and the bubonic plague
b9g4a TIL More Indians died in World War 2 war efforts than the Britons, Americans and French Combined