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TIL The Mongol Invasion ended partly since Korea in charge of shipbuilding ran out of wood

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KO6pQ TIL Jackie Kennedy wore her blood-splattered pink Chanel suit for the rest of the day after JFK’s assassination. When asked to change her outfit, she replied “I want them to see what they have done to Jack.”
d9lB TIL that when Anne Frank’s family was arrested, her father showed the officer her height markers on the wall to prove how long they had been hiding, and after the diary was published, the officer said, “I bought the little book last week, to see if I was mentioned there, but I was not.”
GQog TIL U.S. Military Working Dogs have ranks: they are always one rank above their handler, so that hurting one intentionally would have the same consequences as striking an officer
gJZA TIL The Titanic Was Found During a Secret Cold War Navy Mission
DeRP TIL the smallest park in the world is a 2ft circle located in Oregon.