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TIL gorillas only have type B blood.
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TIL the double leg amputee war veteran in the film “Battleship” is played by an actual double leg amputee war veteran.
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TIL that one of the reasons the Roman Empire fell was that they spent to much on the military and built a giant wall
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TIL: Between 1903 to 1905, a cartoonist named Gustave Verbeek created a comic strip called The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, in which half of the story was illustrated and captioned right-side-up, but when turned upside-down, it showed the scenes of the second half.
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TIL that when the artist, Melanie Willhide, got her stolen laptop back, all her files were deleted by the burglar. Data recovery experts were able to recover some of them. The photos were corrupted, but she decided to exhibit the work. The show was titled after the burglar.
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TIL during the US Civil War 40 suspected Union sympathizers were hung and 2 shot while trying to escape in Gainesville Texas in October 1862. The killings took place after trials by a packed juries in which guilt was decided by majority vote. Most of the dead were innocent of the charges.