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awvdN TIL about a man named Wally Wallington, a retired construction worker, who has figured out a way for a single person to manipulate monoliths using only wooden levers, pebbles, and counterweights, and who may have solved the mystery of Stonehenge.
Wk5G8 TIL in 1941 the President of Haiti declared war on Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. Only Romania bothered to declare war on Haiti in return.
9wk4M TIL that Heathcliff predates Garfield by 5 years, Heathcliff started in 1973, and Garfield in 1978
8aRJP TIL in 1951 Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz carried out an agrarian reform under which uncultivated portions of large land-holdings were expropriated in return for compensation and redistributed to poverty-stricken agricultural laborers. The US disliked this and the CIA engineered a coup d'etat
epkZn TIL Robert Wadlow was the tallest person in history at 2.72 m (8 ft 11.1 in) tall.