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TIL that Johnny Cash’s truck caused a massive forest fire that nearly wiped out an endangered species of condor. Upon being sued by the U.S. national government, Cash proclaimed: “I don’t care about your damn yellow buzzards.”

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KYdm6 TIL Fench Bulldogs experience several serious health problems due to a skull malformation, which was caused due to years of breeding selection. Now, a breeder and veterinary assistant in the Netherlands are trying to reingeener the French Bulldog's face to make it healthier.
Y1wr TIL Teddy Roosevelt Jr (son of President Theodore Roosevelt) was the oldest man to invade the beaches of Normandy, the only man to invade Normandy with his son (Cpt. Quentin Roosevelt II on Omaha Beach), and he was the only general to lead his troops (on Omaha beach with only a cane and a pistol)
woMvP TIL Before his ascension to the papacy, the future Pope John Paul I published a book of letters written to various historical figures and fictional characters such as Charles Dickens, King David, and Pinocchio.
wLZG1 TIL: Of Dilsey Pope of Columbus, Georgia, a free woman of color, who owned her husband. After they quarreled, she sold him to a white slaveowner; he refused to sell him back once the couple had reconciled.