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TIL that Iraq DID have WMDs, and Bush tried to cover it up.

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grVED TIL a computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is 'uncharacteristically' at 20 letters.
n9R7 TIL that British, American and Canadian bacon rashers each have their own distinct look and are cut from different parts of the pig.
4XDro TIL that no criminal named "chad" has ever been executed by hanging
e0eGk TIL in 1986, Harrods, a small restaurant in the town of Otorohanga, New Zealand, was threatened with a lawsuit by the famous department store of the same name. In response, the town changed its name to Harrodsville and renamed all of its businesses ‘Harrods'.
1aEKP TIL Architect Oscar Niemeyer and urbanist Lúcio Costa invented an urban plan for Brasilia and structures that would attempt to micromanage the daily activity of human life. The unabashed goal was to create the space that would birth “the new Brazilian citizen”