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TIL that Jimi Hendrix was in the US Army for a short stint in the early 1960's, but he eventually got kicked out due to his disinterest and behaviour problems.

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kJxO4 TIL that king Charles III is allowed to travel without a passport and drive without a license as the reigning monarch of 14 countries.
bRR4 TIL that the descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt, once America’s richest man, held a reunion in 1973. Not a single one of them were millionaires.
M7NaA TIL that the Magnolia is a plant species with roots going back before even bees, so it doesn’t produce any nectar! Instead it’s pollinated by beetles
LG8V TIL Ostriches are the only living birds that pee and poo separately.
6Wgw TIL: the word “thug” is derived from the Cult of Thuggee in India, who were hired assassins who killed 2,000,000 people and were only stopped when the British arrived with modern crime detection methods in the 1830’s