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TIL The US Civil War ended in Liverpool, England

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jN1Ej TIL that Ernest “Boots” Thomas, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, was able to enlist in spite of being color blind by memorizing the results of another man’s test.
Z8vna TIL that the dog in the “This is fine” meme meets a rather gruesome end in the comic strip
Bggbr TIL venomous injuries largely from contact with hornets, wasps and bees resulted in an average of more than 56 fatalities per year in the United States, compared with about one per year from alligator attacks
wm07 TIL that since 1991 the percentage of Russia’s population that does not identify with any religion has dropped from 61% to 18%
EgDG0 TIL that if the moon were to come closer than 12,000 miles to Earth, the Earth's gravitational forces would pull it apart, transforming it into rings like the ones on Saturn.