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TIL that in 1963, JFK went on a western conservation tour to promote the environment

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9odm TIL physicist Bernard Waldman witnessed the bombing of Hiroshima, as a camera operator on the observation aircraft. He was equipped with a special high-speed movie camera with six seconds of film to record the blast. Unfortunately, Waldman forgot to open the camera shutter, and no film was exposed.
nPX7 TIL that Jackie chan sang “I’ll make a man out of you” in Chinese in mulans extra footage
YlQd TIL that humans’ closest relative, Bonobos, have a peaceful female-run society where sex is used to resolve conflict. They “make love, not war.”
gXXW TIL the last Confederate General to surrender in the field was a Native American (Cherokee)…and a slave holder
MX6B TIL that the fibonacci sequence can be used to roughly convert between miles and kilometers. If the nth term is a number of miles, the nth+1 term is roughly how many kilometers it is.