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TIL General George G. Meade had only been in charge of the Union Army for 3 Days before the Battle of Gettysburg began. The subsequent fight was not only the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War, but considered a turning point by many Historians

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WgMA TIL that Muhammad Ali was invited to North Korea in 1995 with a collection of other athletes. Though he didn’t speak much during the visit, at one function, as officials claimed they could take out the US or Japan whenever they wanted to, Ali declared loudly “no wonder we hate these motherfuckers.”
D0kD TIL that Netflix has almost 150 movies available with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
pbQ8 TIL in 1846, John Torrington perished during an expedition to find the Northwest Passage. When his corpse was exhumed 138 years later, it was almost perfectly preserved – eyes wide open, clothing intact, and limbs so flexible that moving him felt like moving someone unconscious rather than dead.
e0bDn TIL that every human being has a unique microbial identity. A microbial "trace" is left of us as we move about that is as unique a fingerprint and could one day be used in criminal forensics and bio-metric security.
OjnX TIL Swedish programmer Ludvig Strigeus, the main developer of Spotify, was also the programmer that made µTorrent.