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TIL That Mirrors are Often Next to Elevators to Keep People Busy During the Wait

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4kaVX TIL that Guy Bradley, America's first game warden and reformed poacher, worked independently to increase the population of white egrets on Pelican Island, the worlds first wildlife refuge, before being killed by a poacher while investigating gunshots at his waterfront home.
4XdyJ TIL During WWII, the only US land operation to take place on the Japanese home islands was performed by a submarine (U.S.S Barb). Crew from the sub went onto to the island and placed explosives on some tracks, which ended up sending a train into the ocean. The barb is the only sub to sink a train.
OGE5X Today I learned that between 1912 and 1946, ART was an actual olympic sport
L5Ep TIL Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day in the same year.
xVROo TIL there are trees in Japan that survived the Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombings, one was only 740 meters from the hypocenter that completely destroyed the castle upon whose grounds it grew.