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TIL that Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh was killed in California by a bomb. Three suspects linked with the Jewish Defense League fled to Israel before they could be arrested.

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5VmRn TIL: A mule always has a donkey father and a horse mother. An offspring of a horse father and a donkey mother is called a hinny.
xVMRg TIL that European armies persisted with brightly colored uniforms into the 20th century because, until the advent of smokeless powder, camouflage was unnecessary: battlefields were so thick with gun-smoke that unit positions and movements were naturally concealed.
x6ryw TIL that, in the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803-04, William Clark spelled the word "Sioux" in 27 different ways.
xVPkw TIL that an observatory in Chile makes a peculiar wine by fermenting billion year old chunks of meteorite into it.
7r75Z TIL "Box beds" – cabinets with beds in them and, sometimes, lockable doors – were used for privacy and safety in parts of rural medieval Europe before individual bedrooms were common. They became fashionable even in homes with bedrooms and remaind in use in Scotland into the 1900s.