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TIL: Leonard Nimoy only appeared once in public as Spock as the grand marshal of the Pear Blossom Parade in Medford, Oregon in 1967

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7OQr TIL that Shell oil initially sold antiques and later imported sea shells from the Far East.
p8GNb TIL that Mars experiences all four seasons similarly to Earth but twice as long due to its axes tilted at 25° and the length of its orbit around the Sun.
pKGe TIL an Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War named Hugh Thompson prevented hundreds of civilians at My Lai from being murdered by confronting fellow soldiers and ferrying civilians to safety by helicopter.
698o8 TIL that Delaware and Maryland are considered to be Southern States by the U.S. Census Bureau
4kA75 TIL the closest living land relative to the elephant is … The Rock Hyrax, a small guinea-pig like mammal