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TIL The Bloodiest Single Day in the US History was the Battle of Antietam in the Civil War

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KO0R9 TIL turf grass is probably the most resource and labor intensive "crop" in the US, consuming more fresh water than the seven greatest water-using crops combined.
oR1lY Today I learned how the individual days of the week got their name. The individual days of the week got their names from the ancient Romans, who named them after the seven visible celestial bodies known at the time: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn ¹.
jjJj TIL A statue of Queen Victoria was moved one inch on its plinth by a German bomb in 1940. It was otherwise unharmed.
JX4 TIL no physical clone trooper costume was ever produced for the Star Wars prequels. Every single clone trooper is a computer generated image.
LQLYZ TIL a 2022 California Supreme Court decision allowed bumble bees to be considered a protected species because they met the state’s legal definition of a “fish”.