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TIL the Vietnam War is known in Vietnam as the American War

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R7L06 TIL that Fidel Castro established concentration camps for gay people because he considered homosexuality as inherently counterrevolutionary and as bourgeois decadence
9YpX TIL there is a water bridge across the river Elbe in Germany, it is 1km long, 34m wide and allows cargo ships to cross the river
R7vE7 TIL Absalom, the son of King David, had public sex with ten of his father's concubines to prove his claim as the new king
n06W TIL there is a wild jaguar population in Arizona.
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