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TIL the cartoon Mucha Lucha was the first TV-aired series made entirely with Adobe Flash

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6EPR8 TIL that Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia were invited to Ford's theater by Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. They declined to attend because neither one of them could stand Mary Lincoln.
XEAvD TIL there's a guest house in Belfast that serves the same 9-course dinner that was offered to first-class passengers of the Titanic
VDnp TIL of the first submarine known to have been used in war. It was called Turtle, and was used (unsuccessfully) during the American Revolutionary War.
X0AeE TIL that scientist have now unraveled the mystery of the Ancient Roman structures and figured out the actual concrete recipe of the Ancient Romans and why it's still standing after thousands of years.
vvvD TIL When an airplane is at a precise angle between the sun and a bank of clouds, a circular rainbow known as a “Pilot’s Halo” forms around its shadow on the cloud bank.