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TIL that according to an MI5 agent who infiltrated the Provisional IRA, Irish Republican chiefs couldn’t bring themselves to attack targets in Scotland during the Troubles because they viewed them as “Celtic cousins”

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OoL14 TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to travel outside the US on official business. He went to Panama to inspect the ongoing construction of the Panama Canal, arriving there on November 14, 1906.
KYwVJ TIL Jim Nabors, the actor who played titular character of Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., couldn't watch the shows opening credits anymore as many of the actual Marines he was shown with were killed in action during Vietnam
xvv1 TIL according to Norse mythology, the wolf Fernir was so powerful that dwarves created a special binding made of the roots of a mountain, the sound of a cat’s footfall, the beard of a woman, and the breath of a fish to tie him down…this is why these things no longer exist in the world
kOkog TIL that Yao Ming's conservation campaigns have led to a 50 to 70% reduction in the consumption of shark fin soup in China
78ZNM TIL the association between the Mohawk hairstyle and the Mohawk nation comes from a 1939 Hollywood movie.