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TIL Anne Frank’s father attempted to seek asylum in the US.
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TIL that the woman responsible for turning The History Channel into yet another reality TV station was promoted to CEO of all of A&E Television Networks (History, A&E, BIO, H2, Military, Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network)
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TIL elephants call each other by name and respond when they hear others call their name
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TIL that the Confucius genealogical line as the longest family tree in history, with 86 recorded generations over 2,500 years: the Chinese philosopher (551 to 479 BCE) is thought to have 3 million descendants all over the world.
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TIL Under Genghis Khan, the Mongols would catapult the dead bodies of soldiers infected by the bubonic plague over city walls during sieges. This is one of the earliest accounts biological warfare.
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TIL about Roy Cleveland Sullivan also called Human lightning Rod ,a park ranger(at Virginia) who was hit by lightning SEVEN times and he survived ALL of them.The odds of getting hit by lightning is 1 out of 13,500.He commited suicide at the age of 71 by gunshot.