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TIL King crabs are genetically closer to spiders than to crabs

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XEdMk TIL that bananas aren't especially high in potassium when compared to other fruits and vegetables.
XE5Bj TIL that in 1914, a 9 year old Irish boy wrote to the British army, requesting to be sent to the front becuase he was good at riding his bicycle and becuase he would often win fights with lads twice as big.
mxALP TIL Francis Crick who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA was under the influence of LSD when he first made the discovery.
8eJMZ TIL that before becoming famous as a General in the Union Army, William T. Sherman was the first superintendent of Louisiana State Seminary, which went on to become Louisiana State University.
kOk04 TIL that when President Millard Fillmore left office, he joined the New York militia and spent the rest of his life in it. He personally guarded President Lincoln’s funeral train when it passed through Buffalo.