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TIL in 1913 the Yankees and Confederates had a reunion at Gettysburg. 53,407 veterans showed up and the event was entirely peaceful.

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ANKGd TIL in project Cybersyn, Chile almost became the first cybernetic state in the world. It was destroyed in the coup of 1973.
KYOga TIL that the caterpillar forms of Bag Moths (aka Bagworm Moths use their silk to tie sticks into portable "log cabins" that they live inside of until they become moths
DQE0D TIL orcas can get dehydrated
yVZwe TIL that in January 2019, a sound installation powered by solar batteries was set up in an undisclosed location in the Namib Desert to play Toto’s “Africa” on an indefinite constant loop.
JYLPQ TIL although Benjamin Franklin never tried to get the turkey as the national bird, he did think eagles were bad moral creatures and that turkeys were much more respectable.