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TIL that Sears used its influence over Reddit to get a post removed that showed how to manipulate the sites interface

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QyYL TIL during the first stages of the Spanish-American War, USS Charleston fired 13 shots at the island of Guam as a response they sent a small ship carrying a Spanish officer who asked the USS Charleston for gun powder as they were out of it.
ADGZl TIL the CDC has recommended later start times for schools because 66% of teens have chronic sleep deprivation.
1OW4 TIL the last survivor of the Crimean War was a tortoise named Timothy who died in 2004, 148 years after the war ended.
JY0wk TIL Humans have been depicting beekeeping in art for 40,000 years and it's now thought this development contributed to human brain capacity development to a similar degree that meat did.
xRo1 TIL of the Great Comic Strip Switcheroo of ‘97 in which several large comic strips switche creators for a day. It is considered one of the best switcheroos of all time