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TIL Civil War photographer Matthew Brady ended up destitute

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xVaZ5 TIL that South Koreans have grown 3 inches taller than their North Koreans counterparts. They are genetically the same and have been living similar lives till divide in the last century. The nutritional difference of only 50/60 years has caused this difference.
DQAYe TIL that in 1841 France almost broke off relations with Texas due to a hotel owner's marauding pigs eating the French ambassador's bed linens
0dPbA TIL: The Trojan Ballistics Suit of Armor was a planned exoskeleton suit inspired by the MJOLNIR armor from the Halo series for Canadian soldiers featured on the Discovery Channel. Features included wrist sheaths and in suit morphine injections. The inventor died in a car crash before he finished it.
Y77vP TIL that Pythagoras of The Pythagoras Theorem was a cult leader who claimed he could speak with animals, time travel and had an extreme hatred for Fava Beans.
mx7EY TIL that India is called Hindustan in Persian, technically making it part of the stan group in central Asia.