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TIL Years later, when asked why Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg failed, Pickett reportedly replied: “I’ve always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.”

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x6EPg TIL: There is a real life "Death Note", where Japanese women wish how and why they want their spouse’s to die.
NZ9M TIL that the original surveyors of Mount Everest lied and added 2 feet to its height to make it 29,002 feet, because they didn’t think people would believe them if they said it was really 29,000 feet high.
Y7gGx TIL Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony was initially his tribute to Napoleon, whom he admired. But when Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804, Beethoven angrily declared that Napoleon had become a tyrant, and he erased Bonaparte's name from the score’s title page.
OGVG1 TIL that London taxi drivers have an enlarged hippocampus compared to non-taxi driver colleagues, thanks to the spatial abilities necessary to do their job.
E1VdV TIL the oldest (known) living terrestrial animal in the world is a Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan. He hatched in 1832, making him around 188 years old. He lives on the island of Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory.