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TIL that blueberries weren’t commercially cultivated until the 1910’s, after a long history as a regional wild food

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jryN TIL that on this date in 1777, British soldiers ambushed sleeping U.S. soldiers with bayonets, killing or wounding 200. Less than two years later, the American general who was ambushed used the same tactic on the British, killing 94 and capturing nearly 500.
71eX TIL that the justification for both times the United States invaded Iraq were based on testimony that was proven false.
W7Xj4 TIL that SOS never actually stood for anything, but instead was a Morse code distress signal that used these letters since they were easy to signal
PYAQw TIL about The Man in the Moone, a 1638 novel that is considered by some to be one of the first works of science fiction. In it, a Spaniard ends up on the moon after fleeing Spain and harnessing some wild swans who fly him up to it. He then meets the “Lunars”-a people who inhabit the moon.
kOa9B TIL Pope John Paul ll and Pope Francis are honorary members of the Harlem Globetrotters