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TIL Ducks should be fed frozen peas instead of bread.

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0dkNM TIL that the Battle of Santa Clara, which was decisive in Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba, was won by bulldozing an armoured train full of supplies and armoured personnel carriers. Today some of the derailed cars and the bulldozers are on display near the Santa Clara station.
78EVO TIL Lego used dust from a 4.5 billion year old meteorite to 3D print bricks.
5Yj4R TIL that the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre is home to the four largest doors (each bay door is 139 metres high) and largest American flag (63.7 metres by 33.5 metres) in the world; the doors take 45 minutes to open.
699Nw TIL that when deaf people experience stroke-related brain damage, they often lose the ability to sign in remarkably similar ways to the different forms of linguistic aphasia (difficulty speaking, forming words, sentences being nonsensical)
Z8ybD TIL that in 1862 President Lincoln had to politely decline an offer from the king of Siam to send the United States a herd of elephants for use in the Civil War against the Confederacy.