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TIL the Vietnam War is known in Vietnam as the American War

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Rl7Q TIL that hours after the JFK Assassination, newly sworn in Lyndon Johnson was almost shot and killed by a Secret Service agent.
b6pV0 TIL that in October 1963, the French space program took the cat Félicette on a sub-orbital mission and she remains the only cat to have been launched into space.
XAPQ TIL that tree frogs freeze in the winter and come back to life in the spring
69N0X TIL Anna Jarvis the founder of Mother's day came to regret it and actively campaigned against those who were trying to profit from it.
7ronp TIL an astronomer travelled to India in 1760 to observe Venus. His ship blew off course, and he missed the date. He stayed in India for 8 years to try again, but the sky was too cloudy. When he returned home, he had been declared dead, his wife remarried, his estate plundered, and his job lost