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TIL Mitch Hedberg was the Jimmy John's voiceover guy in 2005
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TIL that prior to D-Day, the largest naval landing in world history was Caesar’s invasion of Britain in 54 BC.
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TIL that the ban on condoms in America due to anti-contraception laws (which lasted until 1972) led to high rates of STDs among US troops during WWI.
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TIL The once widespread West African black rhino was declared extinct 3 years ago. The reason for extinction was poaching by humans.
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TIL That the Democratic party got it’s donkey symbol because Andrew Jackson’s opponents called him a jackass. Which amused him to the point of making the donkey his party’s symbol.
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TIL that All of Earth's water—including oceans, icecaps and glaciers, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and water in the atmosphere—equals ~326 quintillion gallons (326,000,000,000,000,000,000). Of that, a tiny fraction, 37.5 quadrillion gallons, is in the atmosphere above us as water vapor.