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TIL President Carter "fended off a killer rabbit" that swam out to attack him.

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7rnbZ TIL "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" was written to spread awareness of disappearing Gothic architecture. For this reason, the book contains unnecessarily elaborate passages describing the settings of various scenes
neago TIL of John Howland, an indentured servant boy who went overboard on The Mayflower and was miraculously saved. His descendants include: The Bush family, FDR, writers Emerson & Longfellow, Brigham Young & Joseph Smith, Chevy Chase and over 2 million other Americans.
P1g6L TIL that Napster is still around and relocating their global headquarters to Nashville… their annual revenue is $111.1M
D108V TIL Japan Railways kept the underused Kyu-shirataki Station, located in a remote area of Hokkaido, Japan, open for an extra year for a single passenger -- a high school girl who needed to train to commute to class
9wxmm TIL that Eisenhower threatened to quit before D-Day. Both Winston Churchill and Eisenhowever were at odds 'against' each other.