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TIL Thomas Jefferson and Zachary Taylor (the 3rd and 12th US presidents) were 12th cousins.

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9YWLM TIL that Frank Sheeran, the mob hitman whose life is depicted in Martin Scorsese's film "The Irishman," participated in the Dachau Massacre, during which scores of SS concentration camp guards were executed en masse by U.S. G.I.s after the camp was liberated in April 1945.
VBnpD TIL the biohazard symbol didn't symbolize or refer to anything originally. It's simply a shape that was picked as being symmetrical, hard to mistake, and easy to remember
dDL7j TIL the Titanic had an official mascot: a cat named Jenny, which gave birth to kittens one week before the ship began its maiden voyage. She lived in the ship's galley, was fed by the crew and did not survive the sinking.
e0AD4 TIL That Dungeons and Dragons' "Thieves' Cant" is a real thing - a language used by beggars and thieves in medieval Britain.
N7vgM TIL of the ecocide at Chaco Canyon. When the Anasazis arrived at Chaco Canyon, it was a dense woodlands, but after years of deforestation, harmful farming practices, and finally a drought, the area is now a desert. Occupation there only lasted around 200 years.