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TIL: That only in 1992 we confirmed there are planets beyond our solar system.

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E19gV TIL scientists discovered a dinosaur tail perfectly preserved in Amber. It still had its feathers
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6E0oQ TIL farmer Wilmer McLean fled Virginia after the First and Second Battles of Bull Run occurred on his property and damaged his home. In 1865, his new home in Appomattox was selected by Colonel Marshall of the Confederacy to be the site of Lee's meeting with Grant, ending the war.