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TIL That Britain accidentally invaded Spain in 2002.
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TIL In the early 70s the US Fish and Wildlife Service established the National Eagle Repository as a hub to receive and then redistribute eagle parts found dead around the US to Native Americans and Alaskan Natives for religious purposes.
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TIL the RMS Empress of Ireland had a cat named Emmy who never missed a voyage until May 28, 1914 when Emmy refused to go aboard. The ship left without her and sunk the next day.
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TIL: When Floyd Mayweather Jr. Was a child his father used him as a human shield to prevent getting shot with a 20 gauge shotgun
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TIL the 1981 Italian horror film ‘Nightmare’ was so controversial in the UK, the distributor received an 18 month prison sentence for refusing to edit 1 second of violence. The film had already been cut by over 3 minutes.
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TIL that there’s a orchestra based in Vienna that uses vegetables as instruments, and treats the audience to a vegetable soup made from the remnants of the vegetables after their performances. They have been doing this for 20 years.