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TIL Morocco was the first country to recognize America as a legitimate nation.

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RGKa TIL: The presidential limousines in the last decade have their own ecosystem completely sealed from the outside in case of weapon, chemical attacks. They use heavy duty truck frames and use a diesel engine to lug 20k lbs. of steel and hidden weaponry. Two pints of president’s blood is also on hand.
ddjE TIL that Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi) spent his first 9 years of his life in a hospital and when he was finally well enough to leave, was sent to a Japanese internment camp in Arizona.
gM9j4 TIL that women of the French royalty were required to give birth in public. Sometimes those births had scores of witnesses
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