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TIL Air is both a gas and a fluid.

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Gxrg TIL that between 120 and 140 men, women and children were killed on September 11, 1857, in Utah, when Mormons attacked and slaughtered a wagon train with the help of local Indians - the bodies were stripped of belongings by Mormons and sold off at local auctions for profit
4XJNJ TIL around 1800 BC, a king in Mesopotamia appointed a palace worker king for a short period of time to avoid a disaster that he was told was coming by an oracle. Near the end of the time, he died while eating soup and the worker ruled for 24 years.
xVnPo Today I learned,that in December of 1963 Pan Am flight 214 was struck by lightning and crashed near Elkton Maryland,killing everyone on board.
GY8Jj TIL seven journalists were the pallbearers for Lee Harvey Oswald because no mourners were on hand except for his immediate family.
YpVmW TIL ancient Egyptian priests used to pluck every single hair from their body to sanctify themselves. ouch