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TIL: Jefferson Davis, U.S. Senator and President of the Confederacy, was caught by Union soldiers about a month after Robert E. Lee's surrender to Grant, wearing women's clothes in as desperate attempt to evade capture.

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rRw1e TIL The Pareto principle states that often roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes, & originated in the observation that 80% of Italy's land was owned by 20% of the population. The richest 20% of the world also get 82.70% of the income.
1jg8 TIL: More than two-thirds of the DNA-cleared homicide cases documented by the Innocence Project were caused by false confessions.
91oB TIL that in the UK, the opposition is formally called “Her Majesty’s Most Loyal Opposition”
7mvL TIL that when Steven Spielberg first saw a CGI animatic of the T. rex chasing a herd of Gallimimus, he told the go motion creator on set “you’re out of a job”, who in turn replied “don’t you mean extinct?” The dialogue was later written into the script as a conversation between Malcolm and Grant.
jNgAX Russia sent trained dolphins to war in Syria.