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TIL that Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin were born on the same day in 1809

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1AP TIL that Beast, from Beauty and the Beast, is a chimera with the head of a buffalo, eyebrows of a gorilla, body of a bear, jaws and mane of a lion, tusks of a boar, and legs and tail of a wolf.
YpwVW TIL due to a campaign in the 1970s, “Square Dancing” is the state dance in 75% (24 out of 32) of US States that list one.
97Jr TIL Paul Revere did not shout “The British are coming!” on his famous midnight ride because the colonists of Massachusetts would have still considered themselves British. He instead said “The Regulars are coming out.”
L1xP TIL The first woman to break the sound barrier was an american WWII veteran. Her own government denied her use of a plane, so she asked the Canadian military. They loaned her a plane plus 16 crew AND shipped them to California so she could break the record even though she wasn’t a citizen.
ADrlo TIL there is a sculpture meant to depict an astronaut in spacesuit on the Moon. It was commissioned and placed on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15 to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration.