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TIL that there is a park in Moscow containing toppled statues from across Russia

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9DZp TIL a man tried to shoot an armadillo but the bullet ricocheted off the shell and hit his mother in law
R88j TIL that cattle farmers feed their cows magnets to prevent metal objects that they eat while grazing from tearing up their intestines.
8eRYb TIL In 1978, President Carter oversaw the installation of the first computers in the White House: a Hewlett-Packard HP 3000, water-cooled IBM laser printer, and Xerox Alto desktop computer for the Oval Office. Reagan later removed the Xerox Alto in 1981
QNx66 TIL Napoleon indirectly began the process of Latin American independence when the power vacuum was filled by local politiccal. Such leaders embraced nationalistic sentiments influenced by French nationalism and led successful independence movements in Latin America.
nenQo TIL A review of decades of research shows children of same-sex couples are doing just as well as kids of heterosexual couples across a number of wellbeing measures, including academic performance, cognitive development, social development, and psychological health.