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TIL the roar in the MGM lion is really a tiger

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oBpLE TIL the United States only lost 1 of its first 50 conflicts. Every other war was either a US victory or had no clear victor. The first official defeat was in Red Cloud's War (1866) against the Lakota Tribe. Since then, the US has lost 5 out of 65 conflicts, for a total 95% win rate.
5B5r TIL an episode of ‘Peppa Pig’ had to be banned in Australia because it taught children that spiders aren’t that scary. It was considered too dangerous to teach Australian kids that spiders are not to be feared.
Z8LBp TIL Historian Allan Lichtman, inspired by a discussion with a geophysicist about earthquakes, developed a system that has allowed him to correctly predicted the winner of every presidential election since 1984 using a series of 13 true or false statements or "13 keys to the White House".
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