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TIL: National Park size of Yosemite is under water bc of a dam. John Muir said it was the most beautiful place on earth.

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x6Ea7 TIL a woman, Jackie Mitchell, struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, then had her contracted voided
RKK8 TIL that following the attacks on 9/11, a Masai tribe in Kenya offered 14 cows as an aid gift to the United States.
KOYe9 TIL that accoridng to scientific predictions, the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy within 4 billion years, creating a hybrid galaxy dubbed "Milkomeda".
OGGBL TIL the lives of children were so valued in England that two days prior to declaring war against Nazi Germany an operation to evacuate 800,000 children began moving kids to safety in the country for fear of aerial bombardment.
EWOp TIL Congress tried to pass a “American Hippo bill” in 1910 to authorize the importation and release of hippopotamus into Louisiana to help solve the American meat crisis, described as “lake cow bacon”