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TIL the French secret service planted mines on a Greenpeace ship, sinking it and killing one person.

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yyVv TIL Mark Twain said of Jane Austen “Every time I read Pride and Prejudice, I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
Z0AY TIL when Sitting Bull was killed in a gunfight by agents attempting to arrest him, His Horse-which was gifted to him by Buffalo Bill - heard gunshots and began performing its Wild West Routine, getting on its haunches and dancing. It was believed that the slain chief’s spirit had entered his horse.
grODL TIL that many Union veterans of the US Civil War worked in the marketing campaign for the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, canvassing to sell subscriptions to the book that the dying and destitute general wrote to provide an income to his family. Grant's memoirs became a bestseller of the 19th Century.
wZv8 TIL that the first Courage The Cowardly Dog short was nominated for an Oscar. It was called The Chicken From Outer Space.
kbD1 TIL that in 2016, two recreational divers in Israel stumbled upon a Roman shipwreck filled with bronze statues and coins featuring Constantine the Great. Estimated to be 1,600 years old, archaeologists called the discovery ‘The Biggest Find in 30 Years’