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TIL It's been 13 years since a new country was added to the world map, marking the longest period in modern history without the formation of any new nations.

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NNgJ Today I learned that the basis for incorrect and false descriptions of the Iraqi chemical weapons program was a 1998 action movie called The Rock starring Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris.
e0mNk TIL that the Iceman was the 19th century equivalent of the milkman or mailman having affairs with lonely housewives. There was even a hit Vaudeville song “How’d You Like to Be the Iceman?” and a peep show with a housewife kissing an ice delivery man.
nWavd Today I Learned that ibuprofen has been observed to impair proper penile function
9YmNM TIL that Peter Pan's copyright was donated to a children's hospital in London.
1MDO TIL an 1880’s guy’s GF committed suicide. Her brother, enraged, shot the man in the face & then committed suicide. However, the bullet only grazed his face & hit a tree. 20 years later the man dynamited the tree which sent the bullet flying into his head, finally killing him.