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TIL that on November 30, 1954, a grapefruit-sized meteorite crashed through the roof of a farm house in Oak Grove, Alabama, bounced off a large wooden console radio, and hit Ann Hodges while she napped on a couch. This was the first documented extraterrestrial object to have injured a human being.

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vLwB TIL that when the American Civil War started, Confederate Robert E. Lee owned no slaves. Union general U.S. Grant did.
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