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TIL the official name for Greece is the ‘Hellenic Republic’
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TIL there is a boardgame called “The Campaign for North Africa,” which takes an estimated 60,000 minutes to complete. An example of the extreme details? Italian troops require extra water in order to boil pasta.
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TIL Benjamin Paddock, an American bank robber & con man who was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitives list from 1969 to 1977 when escaping prison in 1968, was the father of Stephen Paddock (the Route 91 mass shooter)
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TIL that Lee Smith, the Hall of Fame pitcher, did not start playing baseball until his junior year of high school. He only tried out to win a $10 bet and began pitching after his team's star pitcher was killed in a hunting accident. In his first start, he pitched a no-hitter.
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TIL that the phrase “Elementary, my dear Watson” appears in none of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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TIL Martin Luther King Jr. regretted his "I Have A Dream" speech after witnessing all the violence going on in Vietnam and the disdain the country had for Black people, he recanted his 1963 monologue, calling it "naive".