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TIL that at the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving parade, this Happened

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Z8pgD TIL that female Photuris lightning bugs mimic the flash signals of regular female Photinus lightning bugs in order to attract the male Photinus bugs and eat them.
Z8JvR TIL The National School Lunch Act of 1946 was passed, in part, because of the number of draftee's that were rejected during WWII due to being malnourished.
rN66W TIL, it is probable that severe bleeding hemorrhoids were the cause of the death of the Scottish explorer David Livingstone at the end of his third African journey
pY7oN TIL of Jonathan R. Davis a prospector in the Old West, who killed eleven outlaws in a standoff, all at once.
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