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TIL Moons can have moons and they're called "moonmoons"

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JKAk TIL that when group of freed slaves kneeled before him, Lincoln responded “Don’t kneel to me. You must kneel only to God, and thank him for your freedom. Liberty is your birthright. God gave it to you as he gave it to others, and it is a sin that you have been deprived of it for so many years.”
YpNEW TIL in 1995 civil engineers warned the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, S. Korea that structural failure was inevitable and it needed to be evacuated. They didn't close because it was so busy and it collapsed that day with 500+ people inside. One director left without warning his daughter in law.
wLwJW TIL that although she is best-known for nursing, Florence Nightingale was actually a pioneer of statistics, creating the polar graph, and using data to effect change on sanitation practices in India
8emKZ TIL Although the Prince became his most famous work, Machiavelli as a writer identiefied more with his comedies, which he wrote to cope with depression and boredom after his career forcibly ended. In a bit of self deprecation, he signed a letter as "N.Machiavelli-historian, comedian and tragic"
Brmd TIL Hummingbirds are continuously hours away from starving to death, and are able to store just enough energy to survive overnight.