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TIL that the first medical diagnosis describing ADHD was in 1775, which is also the same year that the steam engine was patented and successfully mass-produced.

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X0GKk TIL about Operation Tiger, a training exercise that was supposed to prepare U.S. troops for the D-Day invasion of Normandy and resulted in the deaths of 946 American servicemen.
a8DkN TIL That the Confederate States of America only existed for 4 years, from 1861 to 1865.
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