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TIL in effort to keep morale high for WWII troops fighting in the Pacific, the British built a floating brewery and dispatched it to the South Seas

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lkg1 TIL There’s a nursing home in Seattle with a childcare center inside. The kids do activities with the residents so they can learn about the elderly and how to accept people with disabilities, and the seniors can feel less isolated by playing with children every day.
EgpZx TIL acid reflux, or GERD, can cause chest pains so severe they are often mistaken for a heart attack. Of the 8 million emergency room visits for chest pain each year, severe heartburn accounts for over half the cases in which actual heart problems are ruled out.
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JVNk TIL in Soviet Russia There Were 2 Newspapers: Pravda, which means the “Truth” & Izvestia, which means the “News”. The Russians Joked, “There is no truth in the News, and there is no news in the Truth.”