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TIL only 3 white guys have won NBA MVP in the last 30 years
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TIl Nova Scotia gives Boston a Christmas tree every year as thanks. In 1917 a ship carrying explosives exploded near the city of Halifax, killing 1,500 people immediately and hundreds in the next few weeks. The city of Boston immediately sent doctors, supplies, and money by ship and train to help.
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TIL in 1982 a Bolivian Drug smuggler’s son was busted in the US. The drug lord sent a letter to Ronald Reagan, proposing that in exchange for his son’s liberty he would pay off Bolivia’s entire foreign debt ($3.8 billion).
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TIL that a woman named 'Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado', a Peruvian citizen, is the youngest mother in history. At the age of five years, seven months, and 21 days was she able to give birth to a child with an undisclosed father... Or so they thought?
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TIL that Iceland had a law that allowed killing every Basque person on sight until 2015.
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TIL Leonardo DiCarpio was offered the lead role in Hocus Pocus, but turned it down to act in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Though he was paid far less, it earned him his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.