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TIL In four years at West Point, General Custer amassed a record-total of 726 demerits, one of the worst conduct records in the history of the academy, and finished at the bottom of his class

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VMbK4 TIL Danny Dyer has a daughter named Dani Dyer
pYZeN TIL that to control the UK’s invasive grey squirrel population, a growing number of chefs and conservationists have a simple idea: eat them. One Scottish chef even made haggis from the North American rodent.
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