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TIL that Big Bird escaped death from the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion

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O00a TIL a man attempted to cash a $95,000 junk check he received in the mail as spam…it worked
4XMOg TIL that General George Washington was almost killed by a British Marksman
1JVW TIL that a struggling young Harper Lee once received one year’s wages as a gift from a friend with the note: “You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.” She used her time off to write “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
0wvWj TIL: Britain has invaded 173 of the 195 countries in the world.
KYG04 TIL a Guatemalan boy saw soldiers come into his village and murder his parents along with the rest of the village, was adopted and raised in an abusive household by one of the men who massacred the villagers, and later gave testimony that sent the killer to prison with a 6,000 year sentence