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TIL Louis XIX was King of France for 20 minutes.
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TIL of Victor Prather, a NASA pilot who successfully tested a new space suit in a low-orbit flight in 1961. Prather opened his suit’s faceplate when he could breathe again on descent, and landed in the ocean as planned; however, his suit’s buoyancy was ruined by his open faceplate, and he drowned.
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TIL the Emoticon was invented by Scott Fahlman on September 19th, 1982
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TIL that Leon Spinks is the only person to have ever taken a world title away from Muhammad Ali, as all of Ali’s other losses were either fights where Ali was a challenger for the title, or were non-title fights.
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TIL that, based on cladistic analysis of mtDNA cytochrome b and 12S rRNA sequences, the Nicobar pigeon is sometimes called the closest living relative of the extinct didines (Raphinae), which include the famous dodo (Raphus cucullatus).
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TIL during WW2, there was an Australian dog whose hearing was so acute that it could warn air force personnel of incoming Japanese planes 20 minutes before they came and before they showed up on radar. He could also differentiate the sounds between allied and enemy planes