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TIL: The claim that the United States dropped leaflets warning civilians about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is false.

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yjel TIL An elephant (Tarra) and a stray dog (Bella) were inseparable best friends at a sanctuary in TN. Tarra even waited outside a building for a week as Bella healed from an injury.
JNjB TIL The King of Jordan, King Abdullah II, appeared as an extra on an episode of Star Trek and is currently building a Star Trek themed amusement park in Jordan.
x95g TIL that in 1998, a charter pilot discovered a 2.6 mile long geoglyph carved into a remote Australian plateau. It depicts a man holding a throwing stick and is known as ‘the Marree Man.’ To this day its creators remain unknown.
N7J9P TIL that Canada is making numerous changes to its food labeling laws. Among other changes, companies must list the daily value of sugar on their nutrition labels, and also must group sugar-based ingredients together in ingredient lists
graB4 TIL in October 2005 a woman hanged herself in a tree near a residential road and was mistaken as a Halloween decoration for over 3 hours