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TIL: Barbra Streisand had her dog cloned twice

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1a9NW TIL that Russian President Boris Yeltsin once got so drunk at a state dinner that he drummed on Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev's bald head, using dinner spoons.
4Gbo TIL that getting a bone marrow transplant from someone with a food allergy can transfer the allergy to the transplant recipient.
PYl8L TIL Nazi Germany destroyed the city of Warsaw virtually completely following an uprising that resulted in the 500k citizens being taken captive. Germany had plans to turn the city into a manmade lake to erase it completely from history.
N7orM TIL the capital of what would become modern Spain was in Toledo until 1561 when Phillip II decided to separate the seats of power for church and state by moving the gov't to Madrid
LkeMd TIL that a bomb blast on a bus in London, England was initially feared to have killed 3 people and injured 8 in a suspected IRA attack.