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TIL That Chris Kyle, the protagonist of American Sniper, claimed that he shot 30 looters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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BgwwW TIL according to an Interview with Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon, Rhydon was the first Pokemon ever created. It is also why Rhydon has a index number of #001.
QNnEL TIL Teddy Roosevelt was the first President to fly in an airplane (although his flight was a year after his was out of office). There's video, even.
QZbe TIL that in 1848 light-skinned slave Ellen Craft, unable to travel with him as a woman, escaped with her dark-skinned husband by pretending to be both a white man and her husband’s owner. They traveled openly, first class, a thousand miles north from Georgia to freedom.
OL57 TIL: Tom Cruise admits that Kate Holmes divorced him in part to keep their daughter away from Scientology.
LkVbr TIL that Lake Superior has an island which has a lake which has an island which has a pond which has a boulder, which, when the pond floods, becomes the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake on the largest island in the largest lake in the world.