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TIL chocolate milk was invented by Jamaicans, then popularized in Europe by an Irish botanist who sold it as medicine

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KXgR TIL Heath Ledger turned down the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Begins saying that he “would never take a part in a superhero film.”
v1KYD TIL that Teddy Roosevelt would regularly go skinny dipping in the Potomac. Once while out on a walk with Gifford Pinchot and the French Ambassador, the three jumped in, however the French Ambassador kept on his gloves. When asked why, he responded, “We might meet ladies."
eE7D TIL of the Kentucky Bend, a portion of Kentucky surrounded on all sides by the states of Missouri and Tennessee.
dmW9 TIL Katy Perry’s music video for “Dark Horse” has been praised by Egyptologists for its accuracy to the Cleopatra myth.
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