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TIL the Suwannee Canal Company attempted to drain the Okefenokee swamp back in the 1890s

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N7M4e TIL Apollo 12 landed within 600 feet of the Surveyor 3 spacecraft that had arrived 2 years earlier. Parts of the spacecraft were retrieved and taken back home for examination.
LkbXQ TIL that until 1999, Montana had rural highways without daytime speed limits
R7ww6 TIL A Killer Whale learned to mimic human words such as 'Hello' and 'Bye Bye.' The first of its kind to copy human speech. Whales and Dolphins are among the few animals other than humans which can learn to produce sound simply by hearing them.
a8VZ TIL the color distribution for Reese’s Pieces is 50% orange, 25% brown and 25% yellow.
E1OQ7 TIL Fang Xiaoru, who refused to serve the Emperor Yongle who usurped his nephew, was executed by 'waist severing' and wrote the character 'usurper' 12 times with his own blood after being cut in half.