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TIL when the Confederate army surrendered in 1865, a Union cannonade was fired in celebration but General Grant ordered it to stop saying “The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again.

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XKNX TIL when volunteers providing food to elderly and poor people through the Meals on Wheels program began to notice that people were sharing their limited food with their pets, an organization called AniMeals was developed to feed their pets as well.
bmnQ TIL The United Kingdom is fifth in tea consumption per capita behind Turkey, Morocco, Ireland, and Mauritania.
m1GDv TIL: between 1997 and 2007, 31 young people have died from digging holes in sand at the beach, after the hole collapsed sand on to them, suffocating them to death.
bvOj TIL that Mozart wrote an intentionally bad piece of music to emulate the style of an incompetent composer.
kOV0g TIL of Alfred Peet, a Dutch immigrant who came to the US in 1955 and started the coffee chain. Three of Peet's workers were inspired by his business and started Starbucks, even using Peet's coffee in the beginning for their beans.