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TIL that Gustave the crocodile that allegedly killed 300 people has been killed

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6E07m TIL Persian leader Cyrus the Great liberated the Jewish people from captivity in Babylon 538 BCE. Isaiah 45:1 of the Hebrew Bible even refers to him as a messiah and he is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called so.
KKE9 TIL in 2007, Serbian vandals drove a stake into former president Slobodan Milosevic’s grave to prevent him from coming back as a vampire.
gr6DA TIL, that in the US, President Lincoln made the first federal observance of Thanksgiving on August 6, 1863. The holiday was changed to the last Thursday in November a few months later.
Rne1 TIL Canadians rescue deer trapped on frozen lakes, by blowing them to the shore with helicopter downdraft.
VQ00 TIL wild giraffes have evolved to sleep an average of 30 minutes a day, in five minute intervals, to minimize vulnerability to predators.