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TIL Wells Fargo Bank is a citizen of South Dakota

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awwRo Parasites of parasites—sometimes called hyperparasites—seem to be quite common. In fact, parasites of parasites are themselves prone to parasites, leading to what might appear to be an endless progression of interspecies abuse.
0dP1p TIL in the US Civil War, US forces under inept General Ben Butler were repulsed in the first attempt at taking Petersburg in part by a scratch force of old men, young boys and jail inmates and is referred to as "The Battle of The Patients and Penitents" and "The battle of Old Men and Young Boys"
6Jbm TIL: In the U.S. a king bed is bigger than a queen but in the U.K. a queen bed is bigger than a king!
P9oe TIL a plane crashed into the Everglades killing 101 people because the crew was too distracted from changing a light bulb to notice that no one was actually flying the plane
d8m7Z TIL When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, Buzz performed communion, drinking wine from a church chalice. NASA chose not to broadcast it because of the religious nature of the event.