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TIL that chipmunks are omnivores and occasionally eat birds and even mice.

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KMVB TIL that Jack Sparrow was branded as a “pirate” because rather than selling the slaves on the ship he was Captain of, as he was commanded to, he freed them- and there’s a series that recounts his story.
yVLmX TIL that US President Chester A. Arthur was accused of not being a natural-born citizen because his family moved around a lot when he was growing up.
KOd96 TIL a child, Bobby Dunbar, disappeared at age 4, then was "found" in another state with different parents. Investigators took the child, returning him to the Dunbars. Years later, DNA revealed it was the wrong kid.
b66rj TIL that Johnny Appleseed planted apples for manufacturing booze and selling land to pioneers, not to help spread fruit across the land.
4X8lN TIL National Geographic magazine was the first U.S. publisher to establish a color-photo lab in 1920, the first to publish underwater color photographs in 1927, the first to print an all-color issue in 1962, and the first to print a hologram in 1984.