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TIL that Winston Churchill spent Christmas 1941 in Washington as a guest of President Roosevelt. After electrifying Congress with a speech, he stayed up Christmas Eve watching a movie with his new BFF Roosevelt and the Canadian prime minister... then had a heart attack and shrugged it off.

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LEop TIL that in 2000, a new food “invented” by Kim Jong-il called “Gogigyeopbbang” was introduced to North Koreans. It was described as “double bread with meat”, but took on the uncanny appearance of a conventional hamburger.
epp16 TIL healthy male chimpanzees can be as little as 0.002% bodyfat. Females range from less than 1% to 8%.
b6LwE TIL that there are 4 times more chickens in the world than humans. In fact, if all these chickens formed a line, they would circle the world 200 times.
AD5Qo TIL the Philippine eagle is the only bird of prey with blue-grey eyes
b9G1N TIL that in 1951 Matt Ingram was convicted of “reckless eyeballing,” the improper looking at a white person, with sexual intent, in North Carolina. His accuser testified that he had scared her when he looked at her from a distance of about 75 feet. Ingram spent two and half years in prison.