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TIL Sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire at the age of 21.

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b6p44 TIL the average Black American has roughly 1/4 European ancestry
R5757 TIL that Oliver Sipple was a former US Marine who intervened in the assassination attempted against U.S. President Gerald Ford. This event also led to his unwilling outing and estrangement from family.
QaVk TIL that St. Louis, New Orleans, Detroit and Baltimore all have murder rates that are higher than Medellín Colombia and Rio de Janeiro.
N7pQJ TIL during the aftermath of Katrina, Memorial Hospital in New Orleans euthanized patients the staff felt they could not reasonably evacuate.
69gKZ TIL that Hachiko, the dog famous for waiting for his owner for years after the owner's death, was stuffed and put into a museum