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TIL the US was one vote away from introducing hippos in its swamps

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VBRDB TIL the term "care package" was originally invented by the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (CARE), an NGO established in 1945, and the term is still a registered trademark of that organisation
16pWW TIL that there's a museum in Japan that's dedicated to rocks that look like human faces!
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