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TIL there exists an animal that can photosynthesize called the Leaf Sheep

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YpxYv TIL that in the last days of WW1, the Germans blew up all the French factories, bridges and railways they could and flooded the mines in France's most industrial area. This was the reason why France asked reparations from Germany, French economy needed that to survive after what the Germans had done
a88WJ TIL the funeral procession for Ulysses S. Grant contained more than 1.5 million people. Pallbearers for Grant included four Civil War Generals, Sherman, Sheridan, Johnston, and Buckner.
gME58 TIL Iran's Queen Tadj ol-Molouk played an important part in the abolition of the veil in Iran during the reign of her husband. She was the first Iranian Queen to show herself in public when she attended a gradation ceremony in modern clothes with her two daughters, without veils
0woNL TIL that new Mail Pouch barns were painted as recently as 1992
MDrK TIL that sticking fingers up your opponents ass during a wrestling match is a legal move.