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TIL that Georgia's state dog is any "Adoptable dog"

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jNrMX TIL Liechtenstein gives away free beer to anyone who shows up on their national holiday, Staatsfeiertag.
N54b TIL there was an assassination attempt on FDR before he was initially sworn in, but the guy missed and killed the mayor of Chicago as they were shaking hands.
wookE TIL that Winston Churchill repeatedly recommended to King George V that a battleship be named the Oliver Cromwell, despite Cromwell’s killing of a previous king
mN4E TIL a man bought photograph negatives worth hundreds of millions for $45 from a garage sale
R5797 TIL in 1956, a U-2 spy plane had an engine flameout over western Tennessee and was able to glide over 300 miles to land in Albuquerque New Mexico. Story on Page 90 of the PDF.