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TIL Lego minifigures have a hole on top of the head in case any kids got one of the heads stuck on their throat. That way they would be able to keep breathing.

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Z8BGG TIL Only 1 pair of boxing gloves from the Roman Empire period have ever been found despite having numerous artistic representations of the objects. They were found in 2018 in Vindoland, north of England close to the Hadrian Wall.
EK4X TIL that all unreleased Kennedy assassination documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017, twenty-five years after the passage of the JFK Records Act. Among the items most sought after by researchers are some 1,171 documents still closed by the CIA on national security grounds.
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