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TIL there’s a conspiracy that the Beatles never existed.

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78aax TIL that the oldest ship in the world still afloat is the USS Constitution. Built in the 1790s to serve as one of the first ships of the brand-new US Navy, she served for approximately 80 years before being removed from service and converted into a floating museum.
Ovpe TIL as head of Iraq’s Olympic Committee, Saddam Hussein’s son Uday dragged athletes who underperformed through a gravel pit, then immersed them in sewage to induce infection.
D1xOJ TIL that electronics sniffing dogs are a real thing. They can even sniff out tiny microSD cards that are less than a millimeter thick.
b9d40 TIL that future US President Ulysses S. Grant ordered all Jews be expelled from areas under his military control in 1862, blaming them for black market cotton trading. Lincoln overruled the order less than a month later.
XEOKE TIL Only 19 countries are considered "full democracies" including Uruguay and Mauritius. Countries like France, Italy and the USA are considered "Flawed Democracies"