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TIL Alexander Hamilton was only 18 when the American Revolution began

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xVYG0 TIL about the Great Green Wall, an effort to plant trees to stop desertification in the Sahara that began in 2007. Ethiopia has planted over 5.5 billion seedling since.
8rDL TIL Marcus Allen is the only person to ever win a Heisman Trophy, College Footbal National Title, NFL MVP, a Super Bowl & Super Bowl MVP
mPAE TIL the New Horizons space probe, which is scheduled to reach Pluto in July 2015, has on board the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered the planet in 1930.
7bkp TIL that 3 years after illegally joining the Marines at the age of 14, Jacklyn Lucas snuck onto a ship bound for Iwo Jima, stormed the beach without a rifle, and threw himself on top of two grenades to protect his team. He survived, and earned the Medal of Honor at the age of 17.
e0o66 TIL the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that sank in Italy in 2012, had the theme song for Titanic (1997) playing in one of its restaurants when it made first impact