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TIL that Tom Petty took guitar lessons from Don Felder.

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vPLDL TIL about Daniel Waldo, a American Revolutionary War veteran who was also the only man to have voted for both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. He lived from 1762 to 1864, and at the age of 94 became the oldest Chaplain for the House of Representatives.
M7xr0 TIL that ruminants, such as cattle, sheep, and giraffes, do not have a top row of front teeth. They instead have a dental pad where gums meet directly to their bottom row of front teeth.
mJDv TIL during the Napoleonic Wars the English Navy inflicted over 3 times as many casualties on the French Navy than the French Navy inflicted on the English Navy, in part because French gun crews fired high to disable enemy masts & rigging while English gun crews fired low into enemy gun crews & hulls
Jpo8 TIL in 1964, riots broke out in North Philadelphia over a false rumor that police beat a pregnant black woman to death. Over 200 businesses were looted or destroyed. Most of those businesses never returned, which lead to much of North Philadelphia turning into the crime-ridden slum we see today.
XELyr TIL the Red Army accepted a Ukrainian woman after she shot two enemy soldiers at range in an audition, she became the most prolific female sniper in history