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TIL that Abraham Lincoln’s dog, Fido, was stabbed to death.

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ep40n TIL that the US bombing in the Vietnam War was roughly 100 times the combined impact of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs
vAGL TIL that yawning and stretching at the same time is called pandiculating.
5oVk TIL Gemini & Apollo Astronaut Frank Borman was offered the chance to fly as commander of Apollo 11, the first moon landing, but decided to retire from NASA instead. He would have taken Armstrong’s place in history as the first man on the moon.
m1P6o TIL of an archeological dig site northeast of the Dead Sea in the southern Jordan River Valley that has many striking characteristics to the Biblical city of Sodom.
V1G4 TIL that a boy named Hadara was lost by his parents in the Sahara desert at the age of two, and was apprehended, and raised by ostriches for a period of ten years.