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TIL the hoover dam is expected to last 10,000 years

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5y7p TIL that during prohibition, the US government ordered poison be added to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government mandated more potent poison and it killed as many as 10,000 people.
VBGmG TIL: during the conquest of the Aztecs, Hernán Cortés was a wanted criminal, having foregone orders by the colonial governor of Cuba to cease operations. Expeditionary forces were even sent to attempt and arrest him.
g6X TIL that Caroll Spinney has played the Big Bird in Sesame Street since 1969, starring in 4300 episodes in 43 seasons which are 60 minutes long each, earning 8 Grammy Awards and 118 Emmy Awards.
OoEoX TIL of William Alexander Morgan who was an American citizen from Ohio who became one of just only two non-Cuban men to reach the rank of Comandante during the Cuban revolution. The other man was Che Guevara.
XrBP TIL If all your siblings have been killed in the military, according to the Sole Survivor Policy, you will not be accepted into the military, or if already serving, you will be immediately discharged.