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TIL the real Jamaican Bobsleigh team were actually Soldiers and not sprinters.

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wo4WP TIL a British man found his lost father who he hadn't seen in 35 years while inside a taxi
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M784B TIL the official name of the pigeon found in NYC, etc is "Rock dove"
woebW TIL that, after his dog Jacksie was killed by a car, four-year-old C. S. Lewis adopted the same name as a tribute and wouldn't answer to any other. He later accepted Jack, which became the name by which he was known to friends and family for the rest of his life.
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