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TIL Lobsters were once only fed to poor people and prisoners

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xVXxB TIL that Turkey once complained about the emblem of the Armenian SSR, containing one of their mountains. In response the Soviet union said that Turkey didnt own the moon, which is on their flag. Turkey dropped the issue.
16aoP TIL that the Korean War never ended. Although the fighting between North and South Korea and their respective allies ended in July 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, no peace treaty was ever signed, and the two Koreas are technically still at war, engaged in a frozen conflict.
rNERo TIL In 1966, President Kennedy's brain disappeared from the National Archives
Yp51P TIL When Alan Alda was seven years old he contracted polio. To combat the disease his parents administered a painful treatment regimen developed by Sister Elizabeth Kenny consisting of applying hot woolen blankets to his limbs and stretching his muscles.
AKmg TIL at school, Richard Branson’s headmaster said he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire