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TIL maple syrup has more calcium than milk

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J1W8k TIL that to join the Civilian Conservation Corps, candidates were required to have at least six teeth.
MedEb TIL: The Trakehner breed of Prussian horses survived WW2 because an estate owner (Colonel Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten) escaped the Russian advance with 31 brood mares. He was home after being cashiered from the Wehrmacht for refusing to execute 15 captured American soldiers in Italy.
nRQY TIL Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s grandfather was one of the directors blacklisted as a Communist in the McCarthy Era
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