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TIL Prairie Dogs Are Squirrels

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rN1Be TIL in 1985, David Lewis Rice tortured Charles Goldmark to get a list of "Communist operatives" and then murdered the entire Goldmark family, acting on rumors he heard accusing Goldmark's father John to have been a Jewish Communist agent
6x7Y TIL of Cynthia Ann Parker, a settler who was kidnapped by Comanche Indians when she was 10. She lived with them for 24 years, married a chieftain and had 3 children. She was then ‘rescued’ by Texas Rangers when she was 34 but never adjusted back to her old life. She died heartbroken 10 years later.
kORW5 TIL Peter the Great's godson, Abraham Petrovich Gannibal, was an African born, freed slave who was a military and civil engineering genius, who not only fought successfully for the Russian Empire but also for the Kingdom of France.
xK6b TIL there is a Bacon Chase Race 5k where you can run and eat unlimited bacon
16Vj7 TIL that the “dog stinkhorn” is a fungus named for its resemblance to a dog’s penis. Its tip is covered in a spore-bearing paste that smells like cat feces and is attractive to flies, ants and other insects.