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TIL haggis is illegal in the US because one of its key ingredients is sheep lungs.

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KNAJ TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.
o9ZW TIL the “strangest” battle of WWII refers to the Battle for Castle Itter the only battle in the war in which Americans and Germans fought as allies.
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7Agb TIL “[FBI] agents sought to persuade Martin Luther King Jr. to kill himself just before he received the Nobel Prize. ‘King, there is one thing left for you to do. You know what it is,’ FBI operatives wrote in their anonymous letter.”
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