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TIL that since Dunkaroos were discontinued in the US in 2012, they are being smuggled into the country by Canadians called ‘Smugglaroos’

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NXE86 TIL over 20 million people were killed in Chinese Islamic insurgency in 1860s and 1870s under Qing dysnasty, one province lost 14 million and the neighboring province 6 million
Gl51 TIL approximately one in every 138 Americans spent time in prison in 2004
9EA7 TIL the British government has a position called “Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office” that can only be given to a cat
kge TIL In the 1940’s and 1950’s a “blow job” was slang for the sonic boom behind jet aircraft.
ZpwAQ TIL right after the Manhattan Project's Trinity explosion test was completed, Kenneth Bainbridge, who was the director of the test, remarked to Robert Oppenheimer that "now we are all sons of bitches." Afterwards, he dedicated most of his scientific career to ending the testing of nuclear weapons.