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TIL some Native Americans domesticated coyotes into dogs instead of wolves.

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KOa59 TIL Napoleons military genius was considered to be so enormeous that the entire stategy of the Coalition that defeated him (the Trachenberg Plan) depended on retreat wherever & whenever they faced him and only attacking his underlings until they built up an overwhelming numerical troop advantage.
oRVyr TIL the raising of the American Flag on Iwo Jima was not a planned thing, and was also makeshift. They used a drain pipe that the Japanese used to catch rain water in trenches. This was also the first time an American Flag was raised on Japanese soil in WW2.
M7DO8 TIL that Tokyo has roughly the same population as Canada
nWwo9 TIL that during WWII, Japan launched over 9,000 balloon bombs toward the U.S. mainland, carried by the jet stream across the Pacific. These balloon bombs were the first intercontinental weapon system in history and caused the only civilian deaths in the continental U.S. from enemy action during WWII
ELMP TIL that Lawn Gnomes used to actually be real people that the English employed to live in their gardens. The so called Ornamental Hermit.