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TIL The Duke Lacrosse Accuser (Allegedly) Would Go On to Stab and Kill Her Boyfriend in 2011

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nW7Nd TIL Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty was given a Giraffe as tribute in 1414. The animal had been transported by envoys all the way from Kenya to Bengal to Beijing
k87E TIL in WWII,Germans tank drivers in Africa would drive tanks over camel poop for luck. Allies responded by planting land mines disguised as camel dung. Germans got wind of this and began riding over dung that was already overrun with tank tracks. In turn, Allies made mines looking like overrun dung
grvw7 TIL Disneyland had an Aunt Jemima restaurant with an Aunt Jemima character
8LWb TIL That the New Horizons spacecraft is carrying a U.S. Quarter, in a nod to Greek Mythology, to pay the ferryman Charon.
oOO7 TIL that George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower are the only Presidents not to have held a political office when running for President of the United States