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TIL that in Vietnam they call the Vietnam war, “The American War”

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JPlQ TIL The price of entry to a zoo in 18th century England was a cat or a dog - They were fed to the lions.
WkGy8 TIL Karl Marx was a savvy stock investor
4knoX TIL a Korean Air jet due to stop in Anchorage was almost shot down on Sept. 11 due to miscommunications.
Wky1X TIL of Mamie Johnson, who was a professional Negro League baseball player, with a 33–8 win-loss record and a batting average of .262. She was known as "Peanut" during her career due to her height - 5 feet, 3 inches. After retiring, she went to nursing school and became a nurse for 30 years.
v1K8L TIL that 12 U.S. prisoners of war died when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and as many as 400 Allied POWs may have died as a result of the bombing of Nagasaki.