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TIL that Hitler's dogs were killed by his dog handler

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wLG4E TIL John Wilkes Booth's (Lincoln's Assassin) plan was a simultaneous coordinated strike to kill the President, Vice President, & Secretary of State, causing succession chaos. Lincoln was killed, the Secretary of State severely injured, but the conspirator assigned to the Vice President chickened out
e0OQg TIL of the Brocken Spectre, the shadow of an observer on a mountain, cast by low sunlight onto clouds below the observer, often with a circular rainbow halo. It is named after the Brocken peak in the Harz Mountains
kJG4m TIL that the names given to hurricanes are pretty much already set. There are six alphabetical lists of names for Atlantic hurricanes, maintained by the World Meteorological Organization, and they are rotated through every six years.
x9v7 TIL that there is almost no correlation between cell phone connection quality and “bars” of service.
evA5 TIL Australia has 10,685 beaches. You could visit a new beach everyday for 29 years.