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TIL that Ulysses S. Grant incurred more Union loss of life than was inflicted on the Confederacy during his Eastern Campaigns of the American Civil War.

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1G0d TIL there was a man still alive in 1963 who had viewed Abraham Lincoln in an open casket.
OGxoR TIL Emperor Nero went to Greece to participate in the Olympics. The games were held two years ahead of schedule, and Nero was declared the winner of every event he participated in, including one chariot race in which he fell off his chariot
E1BX TIL We waste half or more of all the food we produce each year.
XlEr TIL that out of 11 climate zones known in the world, the Azerbaijani climate has nine.
QJ5Lk TIL that Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner who discovered prions, an infectious protein in the brain, was attacked by both the scientific establishment and the media when he presented his ideas due to the thinking that an infectious protein would be impossible.