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TIL Cats have whiskers on their front legs

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nrGb TIL that when a sheriff from Florida was asked, why deputies shot a suspect 68 times, he replied “Because we ran out of bullets.”
nwVb TIL During a nuclear scare in 1960, the President of France secretly went to the President of the United States and told him “I do not know what Khrushchev is going to do, nor what is going to happen, but whatever he does…. I want you to know that I am with you to the end.”
epWX4 TIL that the men under Union Colonel Dixon Stansbury Miles were so disgusted at his poor defence at Harpers Ferry, that no one wanted to take the mortally wounded commander to the hospital.
BPMD TIL Goldfish have higher attention spans than internet users
XEn4k TIL that Edison used Bamboo filaments supplied by his assistant from Kyoto until he developed Tungsten filament and the shrine hosts a 'light festival' complete with lit bamboo lanterns and the American anthem to honor this exchange