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TIL the nation of Sweden’s official “@Sweden” Twitter account is given to a different citizen every week to manage

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M7rVb TIL Mountain lions, pumas, panthers, and cougars are all the same animal - the Puma Concolor
jNwdR TIL that a woman named Angela adopted a cat and named her Missy. Missy pawed at Angela's chest and Angela felt that was not right and went to the doctor only to reveal that Angela had cancer. A year later Missy pawed Angela's chest again and tests revealed cancer again.
b9bOj TIL that due to a rare condition, a simple Hickey can turn into a deadly stroke, a 17-year-old die getting a hickey from his girlfriend.
GY9ZE TIL that D.D. Palmer, the creator of chiropractic medicine, claimed to have received his ideas on chiropractic from "the other world" and considered declaring chiropractic to be a religion.
EgrGV TIL about Ely Samuel Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca who was formally educated and served as an interpreter and tribal representative from the age of fourteen. During the Civil War he served on the staff of Ulysses S. Grant as military secretary and wrote out the official copy of the terms of surrender.