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TIL Oklahoma has a panhandle because Texas had to abandon all of its land north of Missouri’s southern border to be added as a slave state. It then went unassigned to any territory for 45 years.

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BMXK TIL Roald Dahl helped create a cerebral shunt initially designed for his son, and has helped over 3000 children across the globe
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mnQo TIL The feeling of people that children “these days” are spoiled can be dated all the back to at least Socrates
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