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TIL Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg are actually cousins

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l4D7 TIL Julius Cesar was captured by pirates and laughed in their faces when the ransom wasn’t large enough. Then, while sending his men for the silver, he won them over by patronizing them and threatening to have them all killed, which he did.
BD0d TIL aircraft inventor Santos-Dumont believed air travel would bring peace to the world so he filed no patents and offered his designs free yet burned all his designs when he was accused of being a German spy during WWI and committed suicide after seeing aircraft used in warfare in the 30’s.
EYEx TIL that the Battle of Gettysberg, the bloodiest and most significant battle of the American Civil War, ended 150 years ago today.
xVXZ1 TIL - Falcons are more closely related to parrots than hawks or eagles
R740l TIL Quokkas have a survival instinct which triggers when a mother is threatened by a predator. She will throw her baby at the predator, which will hiss at the predator while the mother makes her escape.