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TIL: If your kid sends a letter to any Disney character and they will return a postcard to them...

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gd0b TIL of a group of people who believe they slid from a different timeline into ours. Among other things, they remember Mandela dying in the 80s and New Zealand being located north of Australia, not south.
bdWa TIL of Charles Alvin Beckwith, creator of the U.S. Army’s Delta Force unit. He once contracted leptospirosis so severe the doctors did not expect him to live; he made a full recovery in months. He was later critically wounded by a .50 round and expected to die. Within months, he fully recovered.
kJdA4 TIL that the US considered dropping an atomic bomb on Kyoto. However, Secretary of War Henry Stimson had vacationed there and admired the city. So, he convinced President Truman to choose another target due to Kyoto’s religious significance. Nagasaki was chosen in its place.
REd1 TIL Cheerios will send people free wildflower seeds in an effort to save the dwindling bee population
NaRE TIL Jack Nicholson found out his sister was actually his mother when he was 37