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TIL Ewan McGregor's brother is a pilot in the RAF, and his callsign is "Obi-Two"

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0dkER TIL: Alexander Hamilton’s first son Philip died from a duel three years earlier near the same spot Alexander was fatally shot, using the same set of pistols.
6EKMl TIL about Sarah Rosetta Wakeman who was a woman that served in the Union Army During the American Civil War. Serving under a fake name, she was given the position of prison guard. During here time at the prison one of the female inmates there was doing time for the same crime she was committing.
MeXBV TIL that there is only one Jewish person in Afghanistan, and he lives alone in a dilapidated synagogue.
dneZ TIL in 1894, London and New York were “drowning” in horse poop. It was estimated that within 50 years, London streets would be buried in 9 feet of poop and horse carcasses. But the invention of the automobile resolved the problem.
KYRy6 TIL of Richard Jordan, who successfully appealed three death sentences, accepted a plea deal for life without parole, and then successfully appealed that deal, which resulted in him being re-sentenced to death.