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TIL the Canadian postal code for the North pole is H0H 0H0
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TIL, In 1731, the Dey of Algiers presented King Frederick I of Sweden with a lion, one of the first lions in Scandinavia. When the lion died, the king sent it to a taxidermist. However, because he had never seen a lion before the taxidermy was poorly performed, resulting in a comically deformed face
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TIL Of Orion P. Howe, a 14-year old drummer boy who received the Medal of Honor during the Civil War for volunteering to supply ammunition under heavy fire. He experienced 14 battles, and after the war he joined the Naval Academy because he was still too young for West Point.
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TIL that when surrendering during the American Civil war Robert E Lee dressed in an immaculate custom made uniform while Ulysses S Grant was dressed in a mud splattered general issue uniform.
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TIL about sentences that people don't at first realize make no sense ("Escher sentences"): "More people have been to Russia than I have"
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TIL that Yanardag - a stallion owned by the former President of Turkmenistan - has a lifelike deciption as the central figure on the coat of arms of Turkmenistan, is often featured in newspaper and magazine articles, and has a monument in Turkmenistan's capital