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dDZj8 TIL Coco Chanel was a Nazi Agent in WWIi Paris
jNZxn TIL that Ulysses S. Grant provided the defeated and starving Confederate Army with food rations after their surrender in April, 1865. Because of this, for the rest of his life, Robert E. Lee "would not tolerate an unkind word about Grant in his presence."
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PKRJ TIL Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a blood test to measure major depression in adults by measuring nine RNA blood markers.