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TIL that whales closest living relatives are the hippopotamuses.
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TIL Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis & Clark expedition, mysteriously died on Oct. 10, 1809, just three years after their mission's end. His close friends, including Thomas Jefferson, believed he committed suicide...but his family claimed he was murdered. The true cause of death is still contested.
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TIL That in 1054, Chinese Astronomers witnessed a supernova explosion, which appeared as a bright star that would be visible even in daytime
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TIL a group of escaped German POWs returned to Camp Ozada in Alberta, Canada voluntarily after encountering a grizzly bear
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TIL Josip Broz Tito fed up with Stalin sending assassins wrote openly, “Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle (…) If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
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TIL of The Peculiar Flapper Fad of Rouged and Decorated Knees