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TIL Mexican general Manuel Mier y Terán warned that Texas was slipping from Mexico’s control, and after watching his country descend into chaos and ignore his warnings, he fell on his sword in 1832

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KO95a TIL- In France, you can sign up for a service where the postman pop in and check on your elderly parents to make sure they're all right.
wL4aE TIL that crocodilians and birds have a unidirectional lung flow (or circulatory lungs), as distinct from the bellows-type (or tidal flow) lungs found in most other animals.
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