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TIL the UK has been in a war somewhere every year since 1936.

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GlM1 TIL That the first ever Millionaire on Who wants to be a Millionaire made it to the million dollar question without using any of his life lines and used the “phone a friend” to call his dad saying he won
woJJJ TIL of the Glenbrook North High School hazing incident. 20 juniors were covered with feces, urine, paint and animal guts and shot with paintball guns.
p8Zo8 TIL of Soda locomotive, a fireless locomotive that ran on sodium hydroxide. When steam came in contact with the sodium hydroxide, it would generate enough heat to actually run the boiler and generate more steam and propel the locomotive forward.
6Emm TIL The Mormon Church, through its political organization, the Kingdom of God, plans on gaining a political stronghold in the U.S. government. The goal is to “bring the United States Government under the rule of the priesthood.”
pYZQb TIL that the last ship the legendary American frigate USS Constitution ever captured was an illegal slave ship named H. N. Gambrill. The 1853 seizing occurred while Constitution was serving as flagship of the United States Navy's anti-slave trading Africa Squadron.