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TIL that a man who had previously plotted to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was executed on the same day of the 1995 bombing. He spent his last hours alive watching coverage of the explosion on TV.

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6Ev8W TIL of Henri Giraud, who escaped German captivity in World War I by pretending to be a circus performer, and AGAIN in World War II by scaling down a mountain fortress in his 60s.
7MYP TIL Seals have been known to have sex with penguins
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