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TIL that the San Marino military maintains a crossbow corps

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grMly TIL during the Titanic's sinking, Lucile Carter and her children was separated from her husband William. When she met him again on the rescue ship Carpathia, "All he said was that he had had a jolly good breakfast and that he never thought I would make it." They divorced less than two years later.
nOYG TIL: The wave that rolls onto a beach is called swash
pYvaG TIL the longest living dog was "Bluey", an Australian Cattle Dog, who was born June 7, 1910 and died 29 years, 160 days later, on November 14, 1939.
7Nbb TIL in 1759 Arthur Guinness, founder of Guinness beer, leased an old unused brewery for £45 per year… for 9,000 YEARS.
0wGaA TIL that the human body contains more bacterial cells than human cells.