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TIL that the Philippines has a rebel Islamic group named MILF.

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ooZA TIL the mathematician George Dantzig solved two of the most famous problems of statistics, because he came into class too late to hear that they were supposed to be unsolvable
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d8nKd TIL that Boeing made a top secret spy plane named the "Bird of Prey" after the Klingon starship in "Star Trek"
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