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TIL that the last Confederate forces surrendered six months after the Civil War ended after the captain of a rogue commerce raider, the CSS Shenandoah, circumnavigated the globe to finally hand over his ship to the mayor of Liverpool, England

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9JYm TIL that the Great Pyramid was shiny like a glass 4,000 years ago.
w9D8 TIL that Philadelphia Cream Cheese was created in Chester, NY but was branded “Philadelphia” because the city was known for quality cheeses of this kind
e8jg TIL the Alaska Railroad still allows passengers to wave a white cloth along the route and the train will stop to pick them up.
LkOXv TIL when Spielberg showed John Williams the a cut of ‘Schindler’s List,’ the composer became so moved that he could barely speak and had to step out for a few minutes. When he returned, he told Spielberg the film deserved a better composer to which Spielberg replied, “I know, but they’re all dead.”
D10Kp TIL Amur (Siberian) tigers regularly prey on young bears and sub-adult brown bears. Reports of preying on fully grown small female adult Ussuri brown bears by a big male tiger are common as well. Certain tigers have been reported to imitate the calls of Asian black bears to attract them.