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TIL LBJ had two dogs die at the White House: Her swallowed a stone, and Him was hit by a car.

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wPM6 TIL That Billy Crystal attended Marshall University on a Baseball Scholarship but never played due to the program being suspended.
LKnr TIL that the deadliest earthquake in recorded history struck Shensi province in China in 1556, killing about 830,000 people.
wZmJ TIL USA has relatively poor median net wealth than rest of the developed world.
n8n7 TIL not all Kamikaze were volunteers, “It’s all a lie that they left filled with braveness and joy, crying, ‘Long live the emperor!’ They were sheep at a slaughterhouse. Everybody was looking down and tottering. Some were unable to stand up and were carried and pushed into the plane by soldiers.”
R5LEQ TIL that the first known museum dates to circa 530 BC in the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and was an exhibit of artefacts from earlier Mesopotamian kingdoms. Its curator was Ennigaldi, the daughter of King Nabonidus (who has been called 'the first archeologist'.)