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TIL an American man was arrested near the border of Afghanistan while hunting down Osama bin Laden with a sword.

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kOMm7 TIL, before recordings were available, music stores employed song pluggers. These people were pianists or singers that would play any song on request so patrons could have a preview before buying the sheet music.
ADa4a TIL when LBJ died on January 22nd, 1973, then President Richard Nixon was the only living President, past or sitting.
MvGm TIL - The Navy has a goat as a mascot because goats were common on ships to serve as a source of food and leather. Cows were too big and became dangerous in rough seas. Goats can also swim.
x8X7 TIL that the definition of 1 second is; 9,192,631,770 oscillations of the standard Cesium-133 atom. The bases for Atomic Clocks
yAbl TIL that all Sikh places of worship serve free meals for all visitors, regardless of religious, regional, cultural, racial, caste, or class affiliations.