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TIL The plant and color "Fuschia" is actually spelled Fuchsia, in honor of Leonhart Fuchs (pronounced [ˈfʊks]), one of the fathers of botany

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4XerN TIL that an 18-year-old girl called Rae Heim ran across America almost entirely barefoot. She only wore shoes on some hard terrain. She ran 3,437.5 miles in 8 months and raised more than $10,000 for charity. She started running barefoot at 16 after breaking a big toe, and kept it up after it healed.
0wr5p TIL a F-105D fighter jet nicknamed Pussy Galore "boosted moral" of refueling tanker planes by featuring a naked woman whose genitals marked the refuel "docking" port.
wLD5M TIL about Sidney Franklin, a gay Jewish man from Brooklyn who became the first American matador in Spain, befriended and was admired by Hemingway, and was known publicly as “El Yanki” or “El Torero de la Torá”
BgoXL TIL General George S. Patton's heritage was part Mexican. The city of Yorba Linda is named after Patton's great-grandfather Bernardo Yorba, who was a prominent landowner in California before Mexico ceded California to the United States.
EOM0 TIL that the entire alphebet and numbers 0-9 can be found on the wings of different types of butterflies