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TIL that a single Wolverine crossed the ice of Lake Huron into Michigan, where it lived out its days as the only one in the entire state. A local science teacher followed and studied her closely for years until her death. Upon finding her dead he said, "I feel like I lost a member of my family."

e1G6 TIL that on December 10, 1987, a squirrel chewed through power lines and shut down the Nasdaq for 82 minutes, preventing the trading of approximately 20 million shares.
6bE8 TIL , the largest surrender since ww2 occurred when Pakistan surrendered 93,000 troops and half of the country to India during India-Pakistan war of 1971.The other half later became what is known today as Bangladesh.
Yp1KB TIL that despite popular belief, John D. Rockefeller was not a self-made man. He was born into a modestly propertied family, received a $1,000 loan from his father for his first business (around $30,000 today), and profited immensely off the federal government (i.e. taxpayers) during the Civil War.
0wBdR TIL in the ‘30s Soichi Sakamoto, 6th grade teacher in Maui, developed H.I. interval training for competitive swimming. Soichi had no experience as a swimmer & coach. He used irrigation ditches to train. A number of his pupils medaled in the Olympics, and many of his training methods are used today.
W7O08 TIL when Los Angeles was first founded back on September 4, 1781, it only had 44 residents (known as Los Pobladores) and covered just four square miles