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TIL that Georgia's state dog is any "Adoptable dog"

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8apmK TIL that in 1937 a newspaper published a full-page map predicting Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
v1x9r TIL When Time magazine named China's Deng Xiaoping as 1985 Man of the Year, it prompted Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-Kuo to quicken the pace of Taiwan's democratization. Deng invited Chiang to meet with him but he declined, on the grounds that he did not believe in the Communist Party of China
oB5bE TIL Continuous ingestion of Colloidal Silver [an alternative medicine] can cause skin to turn an irreversible blue/grey color - a condition called Argyria
vRKB TIL in 1946 US researchers used prostitutes to infect prison inmates and insane asylum patients to test the effectiveness of Penicillin.
W7YA8 TIL After the assassinations of his brothers President John F Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy; Senator Ted Kennedy lived the rest of his life in fear of being assassinated as well and would jump at loud noises and dive for cover at the sound of a car backfiring.