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TIL In 1911, the federal government banned the cultivation, sale, and transport of blackcurrants to protect the white pine.

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XE9DX TIL Christopher Nolan cast Harry Styles in Dunkirk over hundreds of other candidates based on his "old-fashioned face." Nolan had no knowledge of Styles' fame as a singer.
69LJY TIL that the "Lady of the Dunes" Cold Case was solved in 2023; her killer, new husband Guy Muldavin, died in 2002.
wLYYM TIL that when the NFL football team Seattle Seahawks invited a retired 4 star general to their facility, Seattles head coach Pete Carroll blitzed him with questions about whether the 9/11 attacks “had been planned or faked” by the government.
V8JD TIL that after the Greek War of Independence began, the Ottoman reaction was so virulent that the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church was publicly hanged in Constantinople, and a imam from the city of Smyrna was executed after he refused to issue a fatwa justifying the murder of Christians.
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