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TIL that May 12 is International Nurses Day. It is the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth.

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xyK0 TIL California’s economy is the 9th largest economy in the world.
xVNo5 TIL that Hitler was a vegetarian and would give vivid and gruesome descriptions of animal slaughter to dissuade his colleagues from eating meat.
R57W8 TIL analysis of fish caught in giant water surges occurring immediately following the meteorite impact which caused the KPG extinction event, ending non-avian dinosaurs, show this may have happened in boreal spring; austral autumn—contributing to the death of species coming out of hibernation
9wWB6 TIL that the French statesman Tallyrand lived for two years in the United States during the French Revolution, meeting Benedict Arnold by chance and living in the house of Aaron Burr. When Burr moved to France in self-imposed exile ten years later, Tallyrand refused to return the favour.
j6VaR TIL that Fidel Castro had diplomatic relation with the Argentine Junta.