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TIL the unicorn is Scotland's national animal. It's a symbol of purity, strength, and the country's rugged beauty.

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QJ8Kp TIL whenever Abraham Lincoln felt the urge to tell someone off, he would compose a “hot letter.” He’d pile all of his anger into a note, “put it aside until his emotions cooled down,” Doris Kearns Goodwin once explained on NPR, “and then write: ‘Never sent. Never signed.’
YpgK7 TIL: Aleksandr Karelin, the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time, who won 3 Olympic golds, 12 European Championships and 9 World Championships. His PhD was devoted to countermeasures against suplex throws. He suffered 2 losses, one of which was against a Wyomingite farmer who wrestled cows.
g0g4 TIL the US Air Force accidentally dropped two atomic bombs 260x more powerful than Hiroshima on North Carolina but a low-voltage safety switch prevented disaster.
epM96 TIL Fire doesn't actually ignite materials, it just makes them reach their self combustion temperature
Me8X7 TIL Tatra (a Czech car manufacturer) collaborated on a supercar called the MTX Tatra V8