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TIL That the Statue of Liberty used to be a lighthouse

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Yp1Er TIL Tian Mingjian, a sharpshooter, killed his commanding officer and 27 others after his wife was forced to terminate her second pregnancy, killing her
new67 TIL that the escape routes that prominent Nazi war criminals used after WWII to flee to South America were set up and supported by the Catholic Church
6yO7 TIL that in 1966 French President Charles de Gaulle demanded that all American military personnel leave France. American President Lyndon Johnson asked if that order applied to American soldiers in French cemeteries.
R7Mn6 It might look pretty but Jupiter’s Great Red Spot could literally tear the skin from bone.
NXMM6 TIL 15,498 dams across the United States are characterized as high hazard, meaning the loss of at least one human life is likely if the dam were to fail.