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TIL The postmortem for renowned 30’s jazz musician Billy Tipton revealed that he was secretly a woman.

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Wk5rX TIL : During the Battle of Carillon, the French defeated the British even though the French were 3,600 soldiers and the British were 16,000 soldiers. This led to a decisive victory for France during the 7 Years War.
mV4M TIL in 1964, a man photographing his daughter in a marsh captured what appears to be an astronaut standing behind her; he claims no one else was present in the shot other than the girl
aWJJ TIL Tersicoccus phoenicis is a bacteria only known to exist at two locations on Earth, were independently found in geographically separated spacecraft assembly clean room facilities nearly 4,000 km (2,500 mi) apart.
Y7Vw7 TIL that when the clocks go back at the end of daylight saving time (today in some places) is the day with the fewest heart attacks since everyone has 1hr more of sleep. Correspondingly the day with the most heart attacks is when daylight saving starts in the spring
NX0gP TIL John Stith Pemberton was a Confederate officer who became addicted to morphine after receiving a saber wound. Pemberton made a series of concoctions attempting to cure his addiction. Pemberton's experiments with coca and kola resulted in Pemberton's French Wine Coca and later Coca-Cola.