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TIL Insects Are More Closely Related to Lobsters and Crabs Than They Are to Centipedes and Millipedes

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6b87 TIL British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a “whites only” victory. They insisted that all black soldiers be taken out and replaced by white ones from other units.
oRrQE TIL that Varina Davis, the First Lady of the Confederate States of America, was personally opposed to slavery and doubted the Confederacy could ever succeed. After her husband’s death, she moved to New York City and wrote that “the right side had won the Civil War.”
ne9Go TIL an 18-inch pizza has more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas
d18r TIL The European Spanish version of the “Hasta la Vista, baby” quote from Terminator 2 was “Sayonara, baby.”
e0lPb TIL - Disney banned balloons and plastic drinking straws in their Animal Kingdom Park to protect the animals from accidental ingestion.