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TIL The majority of white voters have voted for Republicans in every presidential election since Lyndon Johnson in the 1960s

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jNEAM TIL that the US in WWII produced as much warmaking assets (planes, tanks, ships, etc,) as the USSR, the UK, Japan, and Italy combined
kOnxd TIL that the parent company of coffee pod maker Keurig merged with Dr Pepper in 2018 and is now known as Keurig Dr Pepper.
X90j TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger has a brother Meinhard who was favored by his father (a former Nazi party member) and died in a drunk driving crash at 24. Arnold did not attend his brother or dad’s funerals.
6EAAQ TIL 60 tonnes of ivory trade per year comes from mammoths frozen between 10,000 and 50,000 years ago.
vPdoB TIL about Lauri Törni who fought for the Finnish Army during the Winter War and Continuation War, fought for Germany during WWII, and fought for the US during Vietnam War, where he was killed. He is the only known Waffen-SS to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.