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TIL the President has a blood bank, with his own blood type, in the trunk of his car

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GRxj TIL that oranges are not even in the top ten list of common foods when it comes to vitamin C levels.
wLonE TIL the first studio recording of Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" was a version by Pat Boone, released in 1969 a year before Buckley's own version in 1970.
W7w04 TIL the Whiskey Wars between Canada and Denmark ended in 2022 having both countries no longer a country bordering only one country. Canada to US and Denmark to Germany.
GY9PN TIL In 1965 Milton Olive III sacrificed his own life to save a group of soldiers by smothering a live grenade. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor award, becoming the first African American of the Vietnam War to do so.
eo7n TIL that slavery was still practised in South Korean salt farms as recently as 2014.