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TIL Harry Truman went from Senator, to Vice President, to President, to dropping the first atomic bomb in 29 weeks.

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Br6mb TIL in 1986, a large male gorilla named Jambo stood between a five-year-old boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, after the boy fell into the gorilla exhibit and lost consciousness.
vPNYx TIL Tectonic plates move roughly at the same rate that your fingernails grow
6w0X TIL King Solomon had a net worth around $2.1 trillion dollars today. He received 25 tons of gold yearly (one ounce of gold costs $1320 today, a ton is 32,000 ounces.) He ruled for 40 years.
Lx7m TIL that President Jimmy Carter didn’t like a magazine picture of a drug lord so he ordered his prosecution to the maximum extent of the law.
pYwrN TIL about the Union Army Balloon Corps, a branch of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It employed a group of prominent American aeronauts and seven specially built, hydrogen balloons to perform aerial reconnaissance on the Confederate States Army.