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TIL there is a children’s show called stinky and dirty

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R5ne8 TIL In the Battle of Kartarpur 1,800 Sikhs under Guru Hargobind fought an army of at least 52,000 Mughals who were led by an ex Sikh general, the governor of Peshwar, and governor of Jalandhar. The Sikh won and killed at least 50,000 Mughals.
p6yN TIL: Dwight Eisenhower smoked 4 packs a day, but quit cold turkey and never smoked again after being advised to quit. He attributed his success to developing a scornful attitude toward smokers who couldn’t quit, saying, “I nursed to the utmost my ability to sneer at them.”
VepQ TIL the Kemper County energy facility - an experimental ‘clean coal’ power plant has been in construction since 2010, scheduled to be online in 2014 and is still uncompleted, after being 295% over original budget.
lEvB TIL for most of history people have had two periods of sleep each night, with the time in between being perhaps the most calm and relaxing part of their lives.
LQlxv TIL Rickey Henderson stole 66 bases at age 39.