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TIL The Yellowstone National Park Bison Herd is the only population of American bison in the United States to have lived continuously in the wild from prehistoric times

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b90R0 Today I learned about Project 100,000, which saw nearly 354,000 intellectually, physically, or mentally impaired men and women drafted into the US military during the height of the Vietnam war, going on to suffer casualty rates three times higher than that of normal soldiers.
VMV98 TIL that Chernobyl firefighter Vladimir Pravik's eyes are believed to have changed from brown to blue due to the radiation exposure
Xo4r TIL a bomb was set off in Ireland during a parade in 1987. 10 years later those responsible apologized bc of the peace campaign by the father of one of the victims.
OGQJ1 TIL Beethoven admired Napoleon and the French Revolution. When Napoleon crowned himself emperor in 1804 Beethoven broke into a rage denouncing him, saying "He lowered himself to the level of an ordinary king."
xV4Gb TIL Naturalist Thomas Savage went to Africa and acquired the skull and bones from an unknown ape species, which he described in 1847. The ape is known today as western gorilla