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Y7PnG TIL The former Confederate President Jefferson Davis met a crowd of 7,000 cheering people when he came to Montreal, Canada. Montreal had been a safe haven for Confederates during the Civil War and some Canadians had supported the Confederacy out of fear the Union might invade Canada.
mvKM TIL That Vultures’ job in nature is so important that they convergently evolved. Vultures of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres are not even related, but serve the same purpose!
AN77l TIL of the "German Tank Problem", a statistics theory that came from the Allies in WW2 attempting the estimate German tank production based on the sequential serial numbers of captured/destroyed German tanks.
QJJXL TIL the band Steely Dan was named after an oversized, steam-powered strap-on dildo.
Vx5Q TIL HSBC Bank was caught laundering billions of dollars in drug money. No one went to jail.