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TIL that President Woodrow Wilson was in the United States for only nine days between December 1918 and July 1919

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9wddX TIL: How dogs barks in different languages. “woke woke”
neeGG According to satellite observations, it occurs more often over land than over the oceans. And lightning seems to happen more often closer to the equator.
Me8lK TIL For a gun to work the bullets need to be slightly bigger than the barrel they are fired from
prQZ TIL that all non-Africans are part Neanderthal, and you can get DNA testing to tell you how much Neanderthal you are as well as your ancestral lineage, and any potential genetic health problems.
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