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TIL of Chief Tuskaloosa, the giant Paramount Chieftain of modern day Alabama, who was killed in combat with the forces of Spanish Conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1540. The modern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama is named in his honor.

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PQjV TIL that Salvador Dalí condemned clichés, stating: “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” Ironically, in stating this he himself was repeating the words of poet Gérard de Nerval.
N7dw8 TIL that in the 1920s, cows started spontaneously hemorrhaging. It was found they were eating hay from moldy sweet clover; the mold helped convert an aromatic compound in the clover into an anticoagulant. The substance was isolated and used as rat poison, and later the drug Warfarin.
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xe51 TIL North Korea has the 4th largest army, the largest special forces and the largest submarine fleet in the world.