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TIL that Marianas Trench is a United States National Monument

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XENWP TIL that turkeys were not brought to Europe until 1550. The popular image of a medieval king feasting on a large turkey leg is an anachronism.
awaNo TIL when JFK was only 3 years old, his father Joseph Kennedy narrowly escaped the infamous 1920 Wall Street bombing planned by a group of anarchists who used a wagon full of lead weights as a bomb. The explosion killed 38 bystanders, however, Kennedy was thrown unharmed to the ground.
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