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TIL Beaver teeth are coated with iron, hence the reason that they are orange.

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awGgZ TIL On May 13, 1862, self-freed slave Robert Smalls quietly maneuvered a Confederate ship full of fellow slaves and their families, through confederate lines and surrendered the ship over to the Union army and went on to become the first black man to captain a United States ship
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nWy4W TIL that Scotland was once home to 2 feet long scorpions
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