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TIL that during the L.A. riots, police officers supported by Marines yelled “cover me” during a standoff. Due to their different training, the Marines then laid down heavy base of fire.

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rNW41 TIL that the last convicted Salem “witch” whose name had yet to be cleared, was officially exonerated just last year. Elizabeth Johnson Jr. was “innocent” of practicing witchcraft as of July 2022.
QJXn9 TIL Carrots were originally purple. The orange ones we are familiar with today started as a hybrid intended to be sweeter.
kO5pd TIL a Air New Zealand sightseeing flight to Antarctica was supposed to have Sir Edmund Hillary who became one of the first to climb Mount Everest. Subsequently the flight got caught in a white out and crashed in to Mt. Erebus killing all of the passengers.
jRR TIL That There was an Elephant In India named ‘Osama bin Laden’ That trampled 14 people to death in a six month period.
edk6 TIL that Crassus, a Roman general and also one of the richest men in history, used to purchase buildings on fire for a very low price and then put the fires out with his trained army of 500 slaves and rebuild them. If the owners refused to sell their property, he would not engage in firefighting.