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TIL in 1859 an American farmer in the San Juan Islands shot a pig who was eating his potatoes, but the pig happened to belong to a British colonist. The conflict escalated to involve 461 Americans & 14 artillery against 5 British warships with 70 cannons and 2140 men. The only casualty was the pig

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9YJb7 TIL of the only man in recorded history to be diagnosed a dwarf AND a giant. At age 18 he was 4 ft, and later in life due to a pituitary tumor he grew to be 7ft tall.
4W1N TIL two women had their daughters swapped at birth. After one divorced, a paternity test was done notifying her she wasn’t The mother of her own child. Once discovered, both mothers decided to keep the daughter they Raised for so long.
wLWyM TIL a 9-man Special Forces team landed on top of 10,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and fought their way out after making barricades from enemy corpses and jumping off a cliff.
J1Y8 TIL There was an intensive study to create a visual guide for the perfect white female butt.
gAj7 TIL that the U.S. government produced 500,000 Purple Heart medals to prepare for the 1945 invasion of Japan. When the operation never took place, the medals were placed in storage and distributed. All military action since then (including Korea and Vietnam) still has not depleted the supply.