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TIL some football competitions use green cards to indicate commendable conduct.

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WkBW4 TIL about the No Gun Ri massacre, which took place on the 26th July 1950, where US Forces killed a large number of South Korean Civilians. One GI, Norman Tinkler, was later quoted by the Associated Press as having said, “We just annihilated them.”
VRB0 TIL That Down’s Syndrome, Downs Syndrome, and Down Syndrome are all correct ways of spelling
XND TIL that a Buddha statuette from India was found in Sweden at an excavation of a Viking village
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