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TIL The largest natural bridge on Earth was virtually unknown to the rest of the world, until it was observed on Google Earth.

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l7KlA TIL that Bob Crane (who played Col. Robert Hogan on Hogans Heroes 1965-1971) played the drums in the theme song for the show.
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PYP0G TIL that Thailand offered to send elephants to the USA during the civil war. Lincoln declined on the basis that steam engines would make the elephants more trouble than they were worth, but was extremely grateful and deferential in his reply nonetheless.
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