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TIL the US Navy operated two coal fired steam paddle wheel aircraft carriers in the great lakes during WWII

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OpdX TIL Antarctica’s largest land animal is a 2mm-long insect called Belgica antarctica, the only insect on the continent.
56GR TIL that according to legend, the Corgi was a gift from woodland faeries and their markings were caused by saddles and stirrups placed on their backs
9YEp TIL Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussels Sprouts, Kohlrabi, and Cabbage are all actually the same species…bred by humans from one plant
dD78r TIL Many of William Faulkner’s novels are set in a fictional Mississippi county called Yoknapatawpha, which he based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his life.
v604 TIL that Henry Ford astonished the world in 1914 by offering a $5 per day wage ($110 today), which more than doubled the rate of most of his workers.