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TIL that whales evolved from terrestrial animals, and are most closely related to hippopotamuses

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wYZW TIL North Korea and China signed a mutual defense agreement which says “the two nations guarantee to adopt immediately all necessary measures to oppose any country or coalition of countries that might attack either nation”
6E7nZ TIL 250 Union soldiers surrendered to the Confederates, enlisted in the Confederate Army while held as POWS, were recaptured by the Union Army, and then re-enlisted as Union soldiers. They were called Galvanized Yankees.
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