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TIL Two headed dolphins are rare, but real.

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69bEJ TIL A latin teacher incited 3 of his students to assassinate the cruel Duke of Milan, an act they've been groomed for since childhood. Instead of being hailed as heroes, one was killed by the crowd, and one killed by a guard after he run towards a group of women and got tangled in their clothing
pYBGQ TIL that the rock climbing community has an agreed-upon difficulty scale they use to classify climbing routes. The highest difficulty level, 9C, has only been awarded to one route, named Silence, in central Norway. It was successfully climbed for the first and only time to date in 2018.
69WyW TIL about the Chambers flintlock machine gun designed in 1792, presented to Washington and Jefferson, and tested by Hamilton and formally adopted in 1812 by the US navy.
OZ6e TIL in 1833 a meteor shower occurred that was so intense that “the frequency of meteors was estimated to be about half that of flakes of snow in an average snowstorm.”
8e6MG TIL in 1945 there were statues created from the measurements of 15,000 American men and women, representing the average size and shape of a U.S. citizen. They were named Normman and Norma.