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TIL: Cher Ami Was a WWI Hero & Also a Pigeon

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ay0o TIL that on Aug. 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will be visible across the United States. The last total solar eclipse visible from the U.S. mainland happened on Feb. 26, 1979, but this one is different. The eclipse’s ‘path of totality’ is completely within U.S. soil for the first time since 1776.
oRMj8 TIL that President Nixon’s daughter married President Eisenhower’s grandson.
yQB88 TIL the use of Hun as a pejorative term for Germans comes from a speech made by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1900 to troops going to fight the Boxer Rebellion in which he referenced Attila and his Huns making themselves feared in China
pA7N TIL there is a top rated restarant in NYC where the maître d’ will Google the name of every guest that is expected to arrive to help them customize the experience
LQoMv TIL Michelle Yeoh's ex-husband was called Dickson Poon