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TIL There are more statues of lions in the world than there are real lions.

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BrGad TIL that Canada didn't burn the White House, rather it was British troops fresh from warring Napoleon's Army, stationed in Bermuda, who set fire to Washington DC.
pY4p4 TIL that cities in New England often had a plot of land dedicated for people who didn’t own land. They are known as “poor farms”. Some of them still exist today and are established by towns as land that must be used for charitable purposes.
RON9 TIL About Daniel Daly, a US marine who when his company was pinned down by German fire in WW1, led his men forward in a nearly suicidal charge with the words “Come on, you sons of b*tches, do you want to live forever?”
l7KW1 TIL the only reason why Led Zeppelin didn’t perform at Woodstock 1969 was because the band’s manager, Peter Grant, decided that Led Zeppelin would be better off playing at the Asbury Park Convention Hall in New Jersey.
QRZL TIL Laron Syndrome, a type of dwarfism, makes its carriers immune to diabetes and cancer.