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TIL the American Army during WWI employed champion Skeet Shooters to protect the trenches by shooting enemy grenades out of midair and deflecting them

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Qb8M TIL Thomas Jefferson owned a sheep known he called “this abominable animal”. He kept it in front of the White House where it attacked several people and killed a small boy in 1808.
epEwg TIL Annapurna mountain for decades had the highest fatality-to-summit rate of eight-thousander meter summits. But the fatality rate fell recently from 32% to under 20% from 2012 to 2022
ADpBw TIL the deadliest blizzard in history occurred in 1972, in Iran. 4000 people died and over 200 villages were totally wiped out for good.
66WW TIL that Don King was charging Tyson 8k a week for towels
b9w47 TIL the “Great Depression” did not originally refer to 1929, but instead to an earlier depression in 1873, later renamed the “Long Depression”