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TIL the USDA classifies batter-coated french fries as a "fresh vegetable"

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P1XQG TIL that “Mona Lisa” is a corruption of the Italian “Monna Lisa.” Mona is a vulgar slang term for female genitalia in some Italian dialects.
xvKB TIL that a man in Florida woke up with a severe headache. When he went to the hospital they found a bullet in his head. It turned out that his wife had shot him in the head while he was sleeping.
wLbK6 TIL due to his fascination with James Bond novels CIA boss Allen Dulles made the CIA attempt to make some of the Bond gadgets in real life. While the poison-tipped shoes reportedly did work in real life, many other gadgets failed to do their job.
epN54 TIL that the famous American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman was called "Cump" by his friends and family
lRwV TIL that during WW2 Peru deported its entire Japanese ethnic population to the US to live in the Camps