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TIL the shortest war in history was just 38 minutes.

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EmEd TIL that the primary ingredient in sugar-free Tic Tacs is sugar. Manufacturer Ferrero openly admits to exploiting a regulatory loophole.
gGV4 TIL in 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
W7yk4 TIL the "snake oil salesman" is attributed to Clark Stanley who gained national attention marketing snake oil at the 1893 World's Fair. In 1916 a USDA analysis concluded there was no snake oil in his concoction at all, and that it was 99% mineral oil. He was fined $20 ($543.69 in 2022).
VM6KZ TIL that Everett Lee, born August 31, 1916, is an American conductor & violinist who was the first African American to conduct a Broadway musical & the first to conduct a performance by a major American opera company. He's still alive at 103.
mggE TIL the famous Inca site of Machu Picchu was constructed less than 50 years before Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World