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TIL - Belgium went 589 days without a government

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RZZ9 TIL Union General John Sedgwick, shortly after yelling “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance” at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, was shot under the left eye and fell down dead.
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GYX05 TIL Jimmy Carter still lives in the same $167,000 house he built in Georgia in 1961 and shops at Dollar General