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TIL that the painter James McNeil Whistler was expelled from West Point by Robert E Lee

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P1a4G TIL there is an egg-shaped dwarf planet called Haumea in our Solar System - its shape its due to incredibly fast rotation and it even has two moons.
M7kXK TIL that fossilization is so unlikely that scientists estimate that less one-tenth of 1% of all the animal species that have ever lived have become fossils.
b9ZEj TIL that almost half the cars in the year 1900 were electric.
beE4 TIL a black Chief Justice said after witnessing the jury trial system in the United States, he believed that South Africa is “better off without it.” Trial by jury was abolished in SA during Apartheid
6dZZ TIL 5% of India’s population is on Facebook,but already it has the third largest Facebook population in the world