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TIL WWE commentator Sean Michael Coulthard, also known as Michael Cole, worked as a journalist for CBS Radio covering the Waco siege and the Yugoslavian civil war.

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JAkQ TIL that 300,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese during the Rape of Nanking, which is 80,000 more deaths than the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
X0vPr TIL In February 1985, Ugo Vetere, the mayor of Rome, and Chedly Klibi, the mayor of Carthage signed a symbolic peace treaty to officially end the Third Punic War, 2,134 years after it began.
Jk1Q TIL In 1963, Donald Currey cut down a tree to retrieve his drill bit after it got stuck when he was trying to core it to study climate effects. After studying the core of the tree, he found that he’d just cut down the oldest tree (at least 4862 years old) found to date.
Lk6Ad TIL The giraffe has got the highest blood pressure in the animal kingdom because its heart have to pump hard against gravity in order to reach its head.
49XN TIL that the hotel that inspired Stephen King to write “The Shining” plays the Kubrick film on continuous loop on channel 42 for all guests.