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TIL that according to molecular evidence the closest living relatives of whales are the artiodactyls, a group of hoofed mammals that includes deer, cows, sheep, pigs, giraffes, camels and hippos

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Oob7e TIL the official name of Rhode Island is actually "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations", but not for long!
nBR9 TIL ancient Egypt was formed from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3000 BC, and the pharaohs wore a double-crown, with one half, the White Crown, representing Upper Egypt, and the other half, the Red Crown, representing Lower Egypt.
8arWb TIL in North Carolina there is a small sign marking the location where a B-52 broke apart midair in 1961, dropping two nuclear weapons below. One was set to ARM.
4karN TIL Napoléon shipped more than 800,000 pints of wine during his Egyptian Campaign.
a8OnA TIL that David Cox and Steven Zucker, two graduate students from Princeton, developed an algorithm for the intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces and named it the Cox-Zucker machine.