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TIL (Monty Python member) Graham Chapman’s last words were “Sorry for saying fuck”

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NXglM TIL under the Geneva Conventions, prisoners of war are required to be paid, depending on what their rank is respectively, either 8, 12, 50, 60, or 75 Swiss Francs a month by the Detaining Power.
VBGLZ TIL: In honor of National Stout Day, the best selling stout ale in the world, Guinness, is actually ruby red in color.
X0vED TIL the U.S developed a NUCLEAR Air-to-Air missile during the early days of the cold war to shoot down nuclear bombers
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