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TIL: In 1884, before there were ambulances for people in San Francisco, there was an ambulance for horses. It came to the aid of six in its first month of service.

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QJjXM TIL the 98th Illinois Regiment, part of General William T. Sherman's 23rd Army Corps, made their Corps battle flag from captured Confederate flags from the southern arsenal in Macon, Georgia, during Sherman's famous March to the Sea
loXjB TIL that reckless driving was so rampant in the early 1900's that many cities held safety parades. Mangled cars with warning signs were towed through streets and thousands of children dressed as ghosts to represent each death that year, followed by grieving mothers who wore stars to show their loss.
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e0laE TIL in order to charge more for cinnamon Arab traders claimed that the sticks were used by deadly birds to build their nest. The only way to get it was to trick the bird into trying fill its nest with heavy pieces of meat. The nest would fall and the cinnamon would be taken before the birds attacked