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TIL that Lake Tanganyika, the oldest and deepest lake in Africa, has over 300 species of fish living in it, and 95 percent of those species can only be found there

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mxGJy TIL the “S” in Ulysses S. Grant stands for nothing. It was a clerical error made while enrolling in West Point. Fearing he’d be expelled, instead of correcting them he changed his name.
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