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TIL that Santa Anna, the Mexican general and politician best known in the US for besieging the Alamo, later lived in exile in the US where his attempts at selling a rubber substitute inadvertently helped introduce chewing gum to the country.

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GAPJG TIL that Buzz Aldrin was supposed to be the first man to walk on the moon instead of Neil Armstrong, but NASA was forced to change their plans because they'd built the Lunar Module so that as the pilot, Aldrin would be seated farther from the door than Armstrong
n70P TIL that the U.S. is nearly alone in the world in failing to mandate paid sick time for workers.
ZpMJR TIL that Spitting Cobras emerged in the fossil record around the same time as early humans. It is speculated that the reason these snakes spray venom is because of the pressure humans in particular put on them. The spraying of venom from a distance countered the humans' use of projectile weapons.
DjED TIL that dozens of North Korean “ghost ships”, many containing corpses, have washed up on the Japanese coast in recent years.
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