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TIL when the Congress passed the Lend-Lease Act, the bill was given the identifier "H.R. 1776."

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b9vWE TIL that there exists a dying Mexican language called Ayapenaco. The only two people left in the world that can speak it are a pair of elderly men who refused to talk to each other until 2014 when they decided to make amends to try to prevent the language from going extinct.
dkjZ TIL artist Bryan Lewis Saunders drew 45 self portraits on different drugs to see how they influence his work
KOADE TIL Casey Kasem was a devout vegan, supported animal rights and environmental causes, and was a critic of factory farming.He initially quit voicing Shaggy in the late 1990s,when asked to voice Shaggy in a Burger King commercial, returning in 2002 after negotiating to have Shaggy become a vegetarian.
EgDpp TIL that the Wright Brothers' first patent wasn't for their airplane. It was for the system of controls they built to control their airplane.
glDL TIL the Rolling Stones hit Brown Sugar was originally called Black Pussy but changed for being to direct