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TIL Philadelphia Threw a WWI Parade That Gave Thousands of Onlookers the Flu

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ddxQ TIL While serving as the POTUS in 2002, President Bush choked on a pretzel causing him to lose consciousness and hitting his head on the way down. The only reason he survived is because the pretzel dissolved allowing air to enter back into his lungs where he regained consciousness.
0wYeR TIL Germans Distorted Hindu Ideas Which Led to Nazism
ADgwd TIL that France won a war over China in 1885 resulting in the creation of French Indochina
epe16 TIL Harry R. Truman (not the former president) died in the lodge that he built, where he met his wife, with his 16 cats in the aftermath of the Mt. St. Helen's eruption on May 18, 1980
no0P TIL Citizens of the UK have the right to see CCTV footage of themselves and get a copy within 40 days of asking for it.