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TIL the US Navy maintains a 64,000 acre grove of white oaks for the sole purpose of supplying timbers to restore the USS Constitution

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XEWaQ TIL Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. won a Grammy in 1971 for Best Spoken Word Recording for “Why I Oppose The War In Vietnam”
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oRYb7 TIL that the US government wasted $247 billion dollars in 2022 alone ($2.4 trillion in the past 20 years) simply due to payment errors.
oRdA7 TIL about Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Europe during WW2 by issuing transit visas to them so that they could travel through Japanese territory, risking his career and the lives of his family.
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