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TIL that nearly every country except the United States has made it policy to not attack dams

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mQwv TIL that a cow named Cincinnati Freedom evaded police officers for 11 days after jumping a six-foot fence to escape a slaughterhouse; after finally being caught, and she was given the “key to the city” by Cincinnati’s mayor and allowed to live out her days in a NY sanctuary
78JPX TIL on January 25, 1979, Robert Williams became the first known robot fatality.
yBdM TIL in 1917, WWI U.S. troops in Paris stopped at the grave (composed of soil from the U.S.) of French Revolutionary War Hero, Marquis de Lafayette, and proclaimed “Lafayette, we are here!”
rR66o TIL that the FDA tested 94 dark chocolate bars for the presence of milk. Only six of the bars listed milk as an ingredient, however, an additional 51 bars contained milk with no indication on the label.
6EX5Z TIL After North Korea banned Choco pies, South Korea airlifted 10,000 of them across the DMZ with balloons