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TIL that the last US soldier, Master Sgt. Max Beilke, to leave Vietnam was killed in the 9/11 Attacks when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon.

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xVnV1 TIL that according to molecular evidence the closest living relatives of whales are the artiodactyls, a group of hoofed mammals that includes deer, cows, sheep, pigs, giraffes, camels and hippos
OojM6 TIL a Nuclear Ballistic Missile was almost launched from McConnell Air Force Base in 1980 because a technician loaded the wrong data into a computer. The crew was able to avoid the launch after switching off the main power to the building.
p8p4 TIL that Nazis forged british pounds with a total value of 134,610,810. Their plan was to destabilise the British economy. The notes are considered among the most perfect counterfeits ever produced, being almost impossible to distinguish from the real currency.
7ZbM TIL dwarf mammoths, around 1m tall, lived on Crete 3 million years ago
ZpvxR TIL an Austrian man left $2.4 million to the French village that hid him from the Nazis