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TIL Giant, 50-Pound European catfish beach themselves in order to capture and eat pigeons.

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xVMmb TIL the Americas were never named after Christopher Columbus, because Columbus believed he had sailed across the Atlantic to India. Instead, the Americas were named after Amerigo Vespucci, the first person to suggest there was a new world.
9A5X TIL: In 1993 the U.S. government “hid” an apology to Native Americans in a spending bill.
WkYB9 TIL That modern north american earth worms are not native and were brought over by english colonist.
GJdE TIL a 16 year old was convicted of murder and sentenced to 55 years despite the fact that he hadn’t killed anyone
rN9Md TIL General P. G. T. Beauregard won the first battle of the U.S. Civil War at Fort Sumter after defeating his old West Point professor Major Robert Anderson.