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TIL Mark Twain wrote that Ulysses S. Grant’s memoirs are “an unapproachable literary masterpiece” and that the memoirs are regarded as the best military memoirs in existence.

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7Agb TIL “[FBI] agents sought to persuade Martin Luther King Jr. to kill himself just before he received the Nobel Prize. ‘King, there is one thing left for you to do. You know what it is,’ FBI operatives wrote in their anonymous letter.”
GD9J TIL the “tooth fairy” leaves an average of $3.70 per tooth, up 23% since 2012.
9dlX TIL Ed O'Neil (Married with Children, Modern Family) has trained in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for 22 years & received his black belt in 2007 from Rorion Gracie.
W756A TIL that crocodiles are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards
m1Wwp TIL Prairie Dogs Are Squirrels