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TIL Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna lost his left leg...twice

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b9ma TIL there are an estimated 2 billion earth-like planets in the Milky Way alone
Raow TIL in 1930, Senators who didn’t like having to dial telephone numbers, wanted to ban dial telephones.
nemNP TIL Emmett Till a 14-year-old African-American was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store.
N709P TIL that President Nixon used the sonic booms of 3 SR-71 Black Birds to signal to American POW's in Hanoi that if they could escape and make it down the river, American forces would be there to rescue them.
d8ee8 TIL that USPS launched a site that allows you to adopt wish lists/letters to Santa from low-income children.