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TIL Elmo’s dad was deployed in Iraq

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9rNQ TIL that Morocco, in December 1777, became the first nation to recognize the United States, and together they maintain the United States’ longest unbroken treaty.
v1e4K TIL of a Light Bulb that has been burning for over 100 hundred years. It hangs on a cord from the ceiling of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department’s Fire Station #6, and it has been burning since 1901
wo6D1 TIL the last EF5 tornado was more than 11 years ago, a record longest period without any confirmed EF5 tornado
kJARg TIL that before the raid of Osama Bin Laden in 2011, two 1:1 scaled versions of his Pakistani compound were built in the US, for SEALs to practice their raid on. The elevation of these test compounds was also built to be at the same level, to test the affect it would have on the raid helicopters.
Bk9k TIL that Filip Konowal, a Canadian WW1 veteran and Victoria Cross recipient, upon discovering that a bootlegger had viciously beaten a friend of his, disarmed the man and stabbed him to death. Konowal later told police: “I’ve killed fifty-two of them, that makes the fifty-third.”