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TIL the congressional page program was shut down due in part from congressmen soliciting sex from them

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OPrR TIL that Mata Hari, courtesan and double agent, refused a blindfold and blew a kiss to the French firing squad that executed her on this day in 1917.
6E4DY TIL J.R.R Tolkien's first identifiable Middle-Earth character was a Half-Elven Mariner named "Eärendil", who came from his poem "The Last Voyage of Eärendil" written in 1914.
6E5lw TIL The Hobbit has been published in two editions. In the first edition, Gollum willingly bet on his ring in the riddle game.
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rNm6y TIL that the oldest known reference to crisps (potato chips) dates to 1817, when an Englishman named William Kitchiner included them in his book 'The Cook's Oracle'