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TIL of the Battle of Tora Bora, where America lost Osama bin Laden.

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1ajOV TIL that the 1912 presidential election, the Socialist candidate -Eugene V.Debs- received six percent of the popular vote which was the highest ever for a Socialist or Communist or any leftist in U.S. history.
Bgydy TIL that Henry VIII technically had only two wives , Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves weren't divorced, but were instead annulled meaning in legal terms the marriages never existed. Henry did the same to Anne Boleyn before he executed her.
P1JLZ TIL that a Texas lawyer killed himself because Dateline NBC waited outside his home to catch him in their child predator sting
R5dw TIL that people with a certain type of dwarfism are genetically protected against getting diabetes and cancer
gONA TIL that Brian May, the guitarist of Queen, built an electric guitar from scratch with his father when he was 16 years old, and called it the Red Special. He used that same guitar for his entire career, and it is his most prized possession.