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TIL of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the Union army during the US Civil War.

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R5gp8 TIL Kokura was the main target for the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb, but on the morning of August 9, 1945, the city was obscured by morning fog. Because the order was to drop the bomb visually, the pilots diverted about 100 km south to Nagasaki, killing 35,000 people within seconds of its detonation.
GYDV4 TIL of Dylan McWilliams, a 20 year old man who was bitten by a shark, attacked by a bear, and bitten by a rattlesnake - the odds of which are 893 quadrillion to one.
KOm6w TIL 7,500 B.C. Nabta Playa in Africa is the World's First Astronomical Site, which Tracked the Summer Solstice & Arrival of Monsoon Season
1eL4 TIL that Mark Twain discouraged the use of exclamation marks because it is like laughing at your own joke
ndaG TIL Edmund McIlhenny, inventor of Tabasco sauce, did not consider his sauce to be a major accomplishment and made no mention of it in his autobiography toward the end of his life, nor was it mentioned in his obituary.