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TIL that the British used Concentration Camps over 40 years before the Germans

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xVY7g TIL there's a miniature art "museum" on the moon that includes a drawing of a dick by Andy Warhol
PY1PO TIL that during an early congressional campaign Lyndon B. Johnson supposedly tried to start a rumor that his opponent would have sex with pigs just to "make the sonofab****h deny it.”
KYYZa TIL in July of 2021 a British plane spotter noticed sparks coming off an F-15E Strike Eagle's engine after it took off from RAF Lakenheath. He called the base's switchboard to alert the base and the plane returned safely. The pilot publicly thanked him and gave him his insignia patch.
VBglB TIL of the worlds oldest recorded cat, Crème Puff, who lived to be 38yo, enjoyed red wine and coffee with cream, and had a brother who lived to be 34yo.
D1pmj TIL that Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the son of the famous president, was the only General to land in the first wave of the D-Day landings, despite having a heart condition that forced him to walk with a cane. He succumbed to a heart attack a month later, and was awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor.