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TIL the California Highway Patrol are not known as CHiPs.

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4XWGb TIL about Maximilian I, the younger brother of Franz- Josef, the only Hapsburg monarch of Mexico. During the Franco-Mexican war, Napoleon III gave Maximilian a huge chunk of Mexico in 1864 and Maximilian made a lot of liberal reforms at the time. He was executed 3 years later.
YpjnG TIL about the Battle of Manila Bay (1898) which was a decisive victory for the US Navy where they sunk all seven Spanish cruisers plus a transport ship and only lost one American life: Chief Engineer Francis B. Randall, who died of a heart attack.
NXny1 TIL about the eclipse of Thales, the first predicted eclipse and the earliest event we are date certain of in 595 BCE
Lk5Yr TIL that Scientists Hope to Clone a 40,000-Year-Old Extinct Horse. The baby horse was discovered in permafrost in eastern Siberia. The animal's tissue was preserved enough for scientists to obtain samples. There is no damage to the horse's carcass and even its hair is intact.
4xKJ TIL A species of cavefish in Thailand has been documented walking and climbing waterfalls in a manner similar to four-footed creatures such as salamanders, in a find researchers call “huge” in evolutionary terms.