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TIL baby owls sleep facedown because their heads are too heavy

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ADn8a Today I learned that at the end of the Mexican-American War, there was a popular movement in the US to annex All of Mexico. It was opposed by Congress, mainly because Mexico wasn't white enough.
d8nQZ TIL in 1958 the USAF planned to nuke the moon.
ep5e5 TIL in 1870, Italy completed its unification by defeating the Papal States, which contained Rome. Though his army was outnumbered, the Pope insisted on symbolic resistance before surrendering, resulting in ~68 deaths. Rome was captured, and the Pope’s territory was eventually reduced to Vatican City
wLAG1 TIL that no prime minister has ever completed a full term in Pakistan.
8evna TIL: Donnie Dunagan is a Marine major that served in Vietnam and led a boot camp for years before retiring in 1977. He is also the voice of Bambi in the 1942 classic movie.