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TIL George Washington had no biological children

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JYJmB TIL that while Australia and New Zealand commemorates ANZAC Day, each year on 25 April Italy commemorates the end of Nazi occupation during World War II and the victory of the Resistance in Italy
7rwkb TIL Russia did not treat beer as an alcoholic beverage until 2011. Before that, beer was classified as a soft drink.
9xvQ TIL that 14yo Davontae Sanford was coerced into confessing to a quadruple homicide by police in Detroit in 2007. The actual killer later confessed, but Davontae remains in prison serving a 37 to 90 year sentence.
GYr5J TIL in July 1999, four ladybugs and their favorite food, aphids, were sent into space on NASA's Columbia shuttle to research how aphids escaped the ladybugs without the aid of gravity.
pV0p TIL of the Coconut Religion, which advocated only eating coconut and only drinking coconut milk