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TIL that there are still 120,000 survivng WW2 vets in the US

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LQY4Q TIL Spain is in the "wrong" timezone because Franco aligned it with Nazi Germany in 1940, and it was never changed back.
loLVB TIL National Men's Day was a thing.
PY1gZ TIL many of the Qur'an's verses begin with a handful of seemingly random letters and simply replicated for thousands of years no one has any idea of their significance
4eDR TIL people started dying cheese orange back in the 17th century to fool people into thinking it was higher quality
v15d8 TIL Listerine was initially used as an anti-septic and is named after Joseph Lister, the doctor who famously used the first anti-septics in the medical field. It has also been sold as floor cleaner and as a cure for Gonorrhea