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TIL the producers of Game of Thrones wrote an episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia “Flowers for Charlie”

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wMP7 TIL that Misha Collins (Castiel from “Supernatural”) is the founder and Guiness Book Of World Records recipient of “The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen” or the world’s largest scavenger hunt.
OMGg TIL The War in Afghanistan is officially the longest war in US history.
78lgP TIL in 1981, Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery. The ban wasn't enforced till 2007. In 2017 600,000 were still living in slavery, and only 1 person was prosecuted for owning slaves.
mx5Vy TIL in the 1950s, when Polio was an epidemic, people who used iron lungs had to click to signal a nurse when they couldn't breathe after power went out. Then a nurse would come and manually operate the machine.
GYr11 TIL: Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to freshwater