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

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9RYQ TIL That Canada is the only host nation in the history of the games not to win a gold medal in their own Summer Olympic Games (Montreal 1976)
167Y7 TIL that from 1643 to 1774-over 130 years-France had only 2 kings: Louie XIV and XV, the first and 20th longest reigning monarchs back to back.
9YRPp TIL Goofy actually is a dog, not a cow
wLGW TIL that Claudette Colvin resisted bus segregation nine months before Rosa Parks, and it is her case that went to the Supreme Court — only for her to be swept under the rug by NAACP leaders since she was a pregnant teenager.
1Ka7 TIL: In 1917, The U.S. government sued Clark Stanley for $20 when they found out that the snake oil he was selling did not contain any oil extracted from actual snakes.