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TIL Former U.S. President Martin Van Buren argued with Congress over whether he could keep two pet tigers in the White House.

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LQDBd TIL that King Charles III of the United Kingdom is related to George Washington, the first President of the United States, through his ancestor Henrietta Mildred Hodgson (6 January 1805 – 19 November 1891), an English lady with both British royal and American presidential genealogical connections.
pYP7e TIL that the artist who painted the Age of Reptiles mural at the Yale Peabody Museum--Rudolph Zallinger--also did the March of Progress: the oft-parodied image of the evolutionary steps to Homo Sapiens
Mejma TIL that our heads are older than our feet.
e0GLJ TIL the only creature that kills more humans than humans do is the mosquito
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