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TIL that Michael Phelps has more Summer Olympic gold medals than 80% of countries in history even when taking into account countries that no longer exist.

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d8bWZ TIL that Red Cloud, a Chief of the Lakota, was the only American Indian in the West to win a war against the US, inflicted the largest military defeat suffered by the US on the Great Plains until the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and was the most photographed American Indian in the 19th century.
78W9p TIL that the Sahara Desert ( known for being the world’s hottest desert) used to be a tropical rainforest about 6,000 years ago.
b64Q7 TIL Tom Baker and Lalla Ward were married at the time they played they Fourth Doctor and Romana 2 respectively on Doctor Who
6KwZ TIL of the aphorism Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by carelessness”.
b9lbp TIL of the JFK Records Act, an act that states that all government documents related to the Kennedy assassination be publicly disclosed on October 26 2017.