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TIL the only active ship in the US Navy that has sunk an enemy ship is the USS Constitution built in 1797

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KOYXa TIL Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins owns the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)
X0Yj TIL Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in Japan as “Monty Python and the Holy Sake Cup”
jNZxn TIL that Ulysses S. Grant provided the defeated and starving Confederate Army with food rations after their surrender in April, 1865. Because of this, for the rest of his life, Robert E. Lee "would not tolerate an unkind word about Grant in his presence."
Ek5W TIL Humans are deuterostomes, meaning that the hole that become your anus develops before any other opening. Which basically means at one point you were nothing but an asshole.
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