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TIL 87 people drowned during the manhunt for John Wilkes Booth.

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ebob TIL that some Koreans are trying to rename their country back to “Corea”. They believe that Japan changed the spelling to “Korea” so Japanese athletes would march first at the 1908 Olympics.
4kMQ5 TIL: the first dirty bomb was created and tested by the communist Red Guard for use against the PLA
Oo5lX TIL that for every one bird killed by wind turbines in the U.S. there are 4,000 to 17,000 killed by cats.
9YddQ TIL The two parts to the word “helicopter” are not “heli” and “copter”, but “helico” meaning spiral, and “pter” meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl.
Y78kx TIL During the opening Blitzkrieg of WW2, that while the German Army possessed motorized vehicles and an impressive tank strategy, the majority of her forces relied on horse-drawn transport and supply