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TIL Hector Gramajo, who served as a general and the defense minister in Guatemala, was killed in 2004 by a swarm of Africanized bees on his farm.

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KYNJE TIL the band Rednex, most famous for the song Cotton Eye Joe, is Swedish
kreg TIL that after France joined the American Revolution, Britain offered freedom from all taxation and unconditional pardon in exchange for peace, but this was rejected because independence was now an attainable goal
16QRP TIL that Missouri is likely called the Show-Me State in reference to a speech from a Congressman in 1899: "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."
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