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TIL: President Jimmy Carter pardoned all evaders of the Vietnam War drafts

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RmBQ TIL The ring-tab beer can design was discontinued in 1975, after injuries were caused by people swallowing the metal tabs, and are now officially historic artifacts.
Y7LMG TIL that in 2014 Ed Sheeran made a cameo on the New Zealand’s longest running soap opera - Shortland Street
aW5L TIL: New York Macy’s has an escalator made of wood … and is still in operation!
VN4Q TIL Mormon prophet Joseph Smith wrote that the father of the Biblical Pharaoh was named “Egyptus”. Not only was the word “Egypt” not in use until the 16th Century, ancient Egyptians referred to the country as “Kemet”.
ADGkl TIL Honduran white bats (Ectophylla alba) or Caribbean white tent-making bats, create their own daytime sleeping quarters by using their teeth to cut the ribs of large leaves causing them to fold down to form a tent. They appear as white puffballs when they gather in groups.The bats mostly eat figs.