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TIL Samuel L Jackson originally intended to be a marine biologist before switching his major.

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9Yymm TIL The farthest distance that a lost pet dog has found his way home occurred in 1979 when Jimpa, a labrador/boxer cross, turned up at his old home in Pimpinio, Victoria, Australia after walking 3,218 km (2,000 miles) across Australia.
a89Dy TIL President Lincoln established the Secret Service on April 14th, 1865. He would be murdered later that same evening
gr7Zb TIL a doctor named Chester Southam injected his patients with cancer without their consent to see how their bodies would react.
BrXYD TIL Ulysses S. Grant was broke and dying of throat cancer, when Mark Twain offered an unheard of 75% of royalties to his widow for him to write his memoirs. Julia Grant received $450,000 dollars from royalties.
Br6Vr TIL that the territory of Jammu and Kashmir have two capitals. In the winter, the capital is Jammu and in the summer the capital switches to Srinagar