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TIL: in 1956 the French Prime Minister proposed France join the Commonwealth of Nations. The British PM rejected the idea & France went on to join the Treaty of Rome, a forerunner to the present EU

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KYw89 TIL about 11 year old Herman Lehmann, the son of German immigrants, who was captured by the Apaches in central Texas and lived with them for 6 years. He later went on to kill an Apache medicine man to avenge the death of his chief and master and took asylum with the Comanches.
K0jR TIL that the largest virus in the world has been called the Pandoravirus. They bore no morphological or genomic resemblance to any previously defined virus families leading the researchers to speculate that this virus may represent a previously unknown branch of the tree of life.
8anxa TIL Samuel L. Jackson originally moved to Hollywood because the FBI was tailing him as a violent radical
XEWBE TIL of the N.S Savannah. A nuclear powered passenger/cargo ship built in 1961, that was intended to showcase to the world an example of the peaceful uses of nuclear power.
DGAV TIL A French bee-keeper trained his bees to consume cannabis resin, thereby producing all-natural (rather than infused) cannabis honey.