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TIL Grasshoppers are older than grass, having evolved roughly 250 million years ago

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mxoRy TIL Anni-Fryd Lyngstad, one of the lead singers of the band ABBA, was a child of a Nazi soldier during the occupation of Norway as part of Nazi breeding experiments
neLgG TIL there are customized "presidential" M&M's that are handed out to guests aboard Air Force One and in other presidential locations
P1NlE TIL Harry Truman seriously considered running for a third consecutive presidential term in 1952. He was exempt from the 22nd amendment limiting every president to two terms because of a grandfather clause. However, a dismal loss in the New Hampshire primary convinced him not to.
neX5G Til that Harvard student and seminarian Jonathan Daniels traveled to the south to aid the civil rights movement. He was walking with a black girl when a deputy pointed his shotgun at her. Daniels jumped in front of her, sacrificing his life so that she could live.
grOKb TIL on August 21st, 1989 Film producer H.B. Halicki, was killed in an accident on the set of gone in 60 seconds 2, in Buffalo, N.Y. Halicki, 48, of Gardena, died when a cable that was attached to a water tower snapped and severed a telephone pole, which fell on him.