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TIL that out of 18,400 men, women and children in the Witness Protection Program, there aren’t any that have been harmed.

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e0lL6 TIL that Pangaea is only the most recent super-continent, and there have been at least 6 similar geological events termed “Wilson Cycles”
Nx1e TIL that whilst the average infantryman in WWII saw 40 days of combat over 4 years, the average infantryman in Vietnam saw 240 days in 1 year.
loMBV TIL That Mexico had its first black president 180 years before the United States: Vicente Guerrero, who was one of the leading fighters for independence from Spain, was of half-African descent and later became the 2nd president of Mexico, abolishing slavery during his brief presidency in 1829.
Bpnd TIL Jackie Kennedy wore her blood-splattered pink Chanel suit for the rest of the day after JFK’s assassination. When asked to change her outfit, she replied “I want them to see what they have done to Jack.”
QNRY6 TIL the first emperor of China (221 - 210 BC), who built the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall, also built twelve monumental human statues that were 11.5 meters (38 feet) tall and weighed 30 tons each. The last of the statues were destroyed around 400 AD.