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TIL Gun ownership is REQUIRED in some towns in the U.S.
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TIL that X-Files star, David Duchovny, got a Masters at Yale, and was working on his Phd dissertation called “Magic and Technology in Contemporary Literature and Poetry”, when he quit to become an actor
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TIL During the Civil War, Upon being told General Grant was a drunkard who enjoyed Whiskey, President Lincoln said ‘I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals’.
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TIL That Sir Winston Churchill, at the hight of the Beatlemania, ended his parliamentary career that had begun before the Wright brothers' pioneering flight and had ended in an age when supersonic aircraft could deliver nuclear weapons. (1900-1964)
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TIL that the largest cavalry charge in history occurred in 1683 at the battle of Vienna. Lead by the Polish King, 20,000 Polish and German Knights charged the Ottoman army, breaking their lines and causing the ottomans to retreat in defeat. The battle marked the end of Ottoman expansion into Europe.
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TIL a healthy coral reef will sound like popcorn popping