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TIL the largest known arthropod, Jaekelopterus, was 8 feet long—about the same length as an average adult female American alligator

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krOd TIL that after the Civil War many wealthy Confederate families fled to Brazil, today many Southern cultures and traditions can still be seen in the descendants of these “Confederados”
P17EO TIL that a women's suffrage activist named Virginia Minor sued in court in the 1870s to secure women the right to vote, based on the 14th Amendment's Privileges or Immunities Clause. In 1875, the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled against her in the Minor v. Happersett case.
x61o1 TIL that famous Egyptologist Howard Carter's gravestone has a quote from the Wishing Cup of Tutankhamun, an artifact that he discovered. It reads "May your spirit live, may you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness."
OoZE4 TIL Three Honolulu firefighters were killed, and six wounded, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, making them the only fire department on American soil to be attacked by a foreign power.
MedEb TIL: The Trakehner breed of Prussian horses survived WW2 because an estate owner (Colonel Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten) escaped the Russian advance with 31 brood mares. He was home after being cashiered from the Wehrmacht for refusing to execute 15 captured American soldiers in Italy.