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TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States & mastermind behind the D Day attacks was the president of Columbia University.

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l7nYG [TIL] Tigers, Lions, and other big cats don't have slitted pupils like house cats, but round pupils like us.
VMyB8 TIL of Tolstoy's love for Lincoln. "Of all the great national heroes and statesmen of history Lincoln is the only real giant. ... [H]e was a Christ in miniature, a saint of humanity, whose name will live thousands of years in the legends of future generations."
OogvR TIL Jules Verne's shelved 1863 novel "Paris in the Twentieth Century" predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet. His publisher deemed it pessimistic and lackluster. It was discovered in 1989 and published 5 years later.
OoW5X TIL that Vincent Speranza made a beer run for a wounded buddy during the battle of the bulge that became a legend in Belgium and he did not find out until 65 years later
oRPA7 TIL two Indian scientists discovered (and published in Nature) the Pion particles more than 5 years before the team led by British scientist C.F. Powell who was later awarded the Nobel prize for this discovery.