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TIL journalist Dan Rather was fired after reporting that Bush did not finish his time at the Air National Guard using inauthentic documents as evidence

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9YMar TIL that two chimpanzee communities in Gombe Stream National Park fought a war between 1974-1978, in the first recorded war between non-humans.
X0axj TIL about François de Civille, a 16th-century Frenchman who survived being shot in the head, buried alive, thrown out a window, and left in a dung heap for three days before being rescued by his cousin.
l9Y1 TIL when Darwin was studying a Madagascar orchid whose flower had a foot long nectar filled tube, he hypothesized it had an as yet unknown pollinating moth with a proboscis of the same length, a length unprecedented at the time. Not until 21 years after his death was the moth finally discovered.
9wZpX TIL ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Star Mariska Hargitay (Olivia Benson) is the longest-running actor in a live-action primetime series. It’s a record that Hargitay continues to add to each year, as “Law & Order: SVU” surpasses the heights of its parent show “Law & Order.”
E5Nd TIL that mustard gas led to chemotherapy. During a World War II air raid, German pilots hit an American ship which had a secret stockpile of mustard gas. Doctors noticed that the gas suppressed cell division, which could fight cancer.