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TIL Strom Thurmond remained in the US Senate until he was 100

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x64v7 TIL Arthur Conan Doyle Secretly Resented His Sherlock Holmes Character
loaXA TIL Oregon was the only state admitted into the Union (year 1859) with an exclusion law written in its constitution, which forbade black people from living within its borders.
8eam4 TIL that the first nuclear submarine used wooden bearings for its propeller; Lignum Vitae is the hardest traded wood, fourth hardest wood ever discovered, and is "self oiling".
8aGXG TIL that Titan, largest of the Saturn’s moons, has oceans of liquid natural gas flowing on its surface and its fuel reserves are so large that they could act as our energy source for thousands of years
1aNG4 TIL Persian King Cambyses won the battle of Pelusium against Egypt by using their reverence of animals against them - his front line was dogs, sheep, cats, ibises & whatever other animals the Egyptians hold dear, & the Persian soldiers had the image of Bastet (cat goddess) painted on their shields.