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TIL feeding bread to ducks actually causes many health problems for them

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n1dY TIL Eleanor Roosevelt regularly refused Secret Service protection, and instead traveled with a .22 Smith and Wesson on her person.
P0BG TIL, In the UK, a pair of twins who were adopted by separate families, got married without knowing they were brother and sister.
wLM91 TIL when Fidel Castro was 14 he wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt & asked him for a 10 dollar bill because he admired America.
kOrLg TIL Hachikō the Akita dog became famous in the 1920s for meeting his master every day at a railway station. He continued to make the journey nine years after his owner's death, and is held up in Japanese culture as an example of loyalty and fidelity.
j64Pp TIL that Harry Truman’s former vice president gave a speech ending with how he’d “rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty” before collapsing on stage and dying of a heart attack