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TIL Johnny Cash was the first American to hear of Joseph Stalin’s death via Morse code when he was stationed in Germany

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DQOKe TIL the 'Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills' or Pretty Boy Floyd was a thief in the 1930's who was touted as a hero for destroying mortgage documents whenever he robbed a bank. His funeral had over 20,000 people attend to pay their respects.
LkYVr TIL:- Sachin Tendulkar was born on 24th April 1973 in a middle-class family, his father Ramesh Tendulkar was a renowned Marathi novelist of his times and his mother Rajni was an Insurance Agent.
5YaMB TIL of the Beauty and the Beast character Monsieur Toilette, who was flushed from the final edit of the film
6E6Wm TIL US President Dwight D. Eisenhower personally ordered the first democratically elected leader of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, to be assassinated by poisoning his toothpaste.
Me5GB TIL Prairie dog language is complex. They don’t just have a call for “danger”: their calls differentiate human, hawk, domesticated dog, coyote etc. and specify size & color. One study found that they can communicate “Here comes the short human in the yellow” (vs the tall human in blue) to each other