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TIL that around 60,000 Australian soldiers and 3,900 New Zealand soldiers fought in the Vietnam war alongside the USA between 1962/64 -1972

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orv8 TIL Charles Manson identified himself early on as a Scientologist and even used some ideology from Scientology as a way to get his first followers.
D1K5v TIL that natives used to cure leather with animal brains to make it stay soft even after it gets wet.
Jwbj TIL that it is possible to create a plant that grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below by grafting a tomato plant stem onto a potato plant stalk (made possible by both being in the same family of plants known as “nightshades”).
8eNwK TIL recording artist Terence Trent D’Arby was a lightweight champ earned who earned an invitation to boxing school in the U.S. Army, enlisted and served his country for three years in Oklahoma and West Germany, but was dishonorably discharged in 1983 for going AWOL.
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