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TIL That there was a Nazi Concentration Camp on British soil in the Channel Islands of Alderney

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j6ZNX TIL about Bashir Ahmad, an impoverished Pakistani camel cart driver, who, on 20 May 1961, met with the then US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson, and accepted an invitation to come to America.
lXoG TIL that the President of the IHOP corporation started off as a waitress in one of the restaurants.
xVomk TIL the apples in the phrase "how do you like them apples" refer to WW1 trench mortars nicknamed "toffee apples" used by the British
x6NAB TIL that in 1947, after chocolate bars jumped from 5 to 8 cents, 200 kids marched to the British Columbia Capitol and shut down the government for a day. This protest is known as "The Candy Bar Strike".
7rbV7 TIL there are about 267 Union Civil War monuments and memorials, of which 10 are statues of Lincoln and 18 schools named after Lincoln