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TIL that Ulysses Grant was extremely tone-deaf. “I know only two tunes. One of them is ‘Yankee Doodle’ and the other isn’t.”

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aw7jL TIL Hitler proposed a peace treaty to Churchill in 1941 by which the Germans would have evacuated Western Europe if the UK remained neutral when Germany attacked Russia, Churchill refused.
NK68 TIL of the US passenger airline, Baltia Airlines, which in it’s 27 years of existence has never flown a single commercial flight and claims to have been awaiting FAA approval since 1989.
lNja TIL In 1961, the US Government came up with a plan, coined Operation Plowshare, to use nuclear explosives for “peaceful construction purposes”. One proposal was to widen the Panama Canal by blasting it with those nuclear explosions.
xpww TIL that “Three days after Hurricane Katrina struck, authorities blocked the road that connects the city of Gretna to New Orleans. Thousands of evacuees say they were prevented from escaping the flooding and chaos, and that shots were fired over their heads.”
oBpDY TIL that Maldivian is written using a unique alphabet which uses Arabic numerals as its first nine consonants, and Indic numerals for the following nine. The script may have been invented as a secret code before being adopted for more general use.