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TIL that despite being very similar in appearance, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are not identical, but fraternal twins.

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BQlk TIL that contrary to popular belief, King Mongkut of Siam’s proposed gift of elephants to Abraham Lincoln was not meant to be used to combat the Confederacy, but rather to create a feral pack of elephants in the US for future use.
V64Z TIL that during WWII the Army Corps of Engineers concealed entire factories as small towns to confuse enemy bombers. Here is one example.
DaPv TIL that in 2002, a fire broke out at a girls’ school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Some girls were stopped by “religious police” from running out of the building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress. 15 girls died.
yQyEV TIL that in 1932 three bear species and wolves were put in the same enclosure. They lived peacefully at first, but the polar bears eventually drowned multiple black bears by pushing them into a pool and holding them down. The manager blamed the black bears for “not learning not to go near the pool.”
JnJ4 TIL Gun ownership is REQUIRED in some towns in the U.S.