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TIL That There was an Elephant In India named ‘Osama bin Laden’ That trampled 14 people to death in a six month period.

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loaE7 TIL that the inventor of the AR-15 also invented a new round for it. He also never intended it for civilian use.
9Yo5D TIL the Feynman Lectures on Physics, freely accessible online, is widely appreciated to be one of the most well written summaries of physics, and fully grapsing its brilliantly intuitive explanations allows one to enjoy a true understanding of the concepts
N7d0J TIL that the physician who tended to President Garfield after he was shot was Doctor Willard Bliss. His first name was Doctor.
QNxY6 TIL In the early 17th century, people began to believe plaits were an external symptom of an internal illness. A growing plait was supposed to take the illness "out" of the body, and therefore it was rarely cut off; in addition, the belief that a cut-off plait could avenge itself
rZm0 TIL that President Herbert Hoover who resided over the beginning of the Great Depression had never once been elected to a government office before becoming President of the United States.