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TIL Boomhauer’s dang ol first name is Jeff.

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R5NGl TIL the youngest person to walk on the moon is Charles Duke. He was born in 1935
ep7MD TIL that owls and eagles hate each other.They will fight and kill each other and this had been going on since 36 million years.
b9K97 TIL that the people of the Åland Islands wanted to be annexed by Sweden, but the Swedish government was preoccupied, so they sent them off to the LoN, where a Japanese-influenced delegation handed them over to Finland with a justification they hoped they could use to justify their own imperialism
lg4K TIL of the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster which belched out trapped Carbon Dioxide from its bottom in effervescence suffocating every living animal within a 16 mile radius incl. 1700 villagers and 3500 livestock. The blue lake turned deep red from oxidization and water levels dropped by a meter.
XkJX TIL President Abraham Lincoln feared the long term effects of unrestrained corporations and capitalism that “play on the prejudice of the people” more than the effects of the civil war.