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TIL The national animal of Scotland, the unicorn, is celebrated on April 9th- National Unicorn Day.

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bdPN TIL Conrad Heyer is the earliest-born person of whom a photograph is known to exist. He fought for the Continental Army under the command of George Washington and participated in Washington’s famous crossing of the Delaware in December 1776. In 1852, aged 103, he posed for this daguerreotype.
El97 TIL L. Ron Hubbard commanded a sub chaser, fought a nonexistent sub, and shelled Mexico
YZGZ TIL that when CS Lewis went to an elite English boarding school in 1913, he found that homosexual relationships among students were “not [frowned upon as seriously as] wearing one’s coat unbuttoned.”
8a7Ra TIL that sunflowers can help clean radioactive soil. Japan is currently using this to rehabilitate Fukashima. Over 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds have been sold to the people of the city.
l7G8N TIL that the original Dumbledore Richard Harris is also the singer of the most famous version of MacArthur Park which was a worldwide hit in 1968