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TIL in 2005 the comic strip "Pearls Before Swine" ran a week-long crossover where the PBS characters discussed the oblivious "Family Circus' family taking in Osama Bin Laden. It concluded with the family being taken to Guantanamo Bay.

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78xNr TIL When an English company's horses were taken for the war effort in 1916, they replaced the horses with an elephant named Lizzie
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