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TIL There is a still-commissioned U.S. Navy ship that has been held captive by North Korea for 50 years; the USS Pueblo.

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bp6E TIL One of Michael Vick’s former fighting dogs, Leo, went on to be a therapy dog who comforted terminally ill children/adults.
7rYrX TIL low voices make products seem bigger, which explains Ving Rhames’ voice in those Arby’s commercials
jpaR TIL the Milky Way has several “satellite galaxies”, smaller galaxies that orbit our galaxy like moons to a planet.
neZWP TIL that Hindus in America are the highest educated religious group with 77% of all Hindus in the United States have College Degrees.
dbwB TIL the CIA rigged the 1958 Nobel Prize selection for literature by buying thousands of copies of “Doctor Zhivago” in Europe. The CIA also printed pocket copies of the book and distributed them to Soviet tourists in the West.