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TIL The first aerial bombardment of the United States was an accident by an Irish Mercenary who thought he was attacking Mexico

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R7g51 TIL Jeffrey Dahmer was inspired by the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. He wanted to build a “temple” out of his victims’ skulls where he could sit and absorb a “spiritural force or power”
VMOWD TIL Crows have been found to place nuts on the road so their tough shells can be broken open by passing vehicles. They even know to wait for the red light of traffic signals to retrieve the nuts.
v11P8 TIL that in 1903 the New York Times predicted that building a flying machine would be possible in 1-10 Million years.
16kQ8 TIL about Jacques Tits, a French Mathematician who worked in group theory and incidence geometry, and is famous introducing the Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric in mathematics.
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