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TIL after a serious accident that left him with a permanent injury, Emperor Maximilian I became mordibly depressed in his later year. For the last four years of his life, he wouldn't travel anywher... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the featured speaker at Gettysburg was Edward Everett, not Lincoln. He gave a 2 hour speech preceding the Gettysburg Address. After, he wrote to Lincoln "I should be glad if I could flatter mys... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Napoleon was an ethnically Italian and was above average in height for his time. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that in the UK, a thick beef paste called Bovril is spread on toast or reconstituted into “beef tea.” It’s name comes from the Latin bovinus, for ox; and vril, a substance from a late 1800s nov... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL when the town of Exeter, Massachusetts renamed itself to honor Benjamin Franklin in 1778, they asked Franklin to donate a bell to the town church. Franklin responded with a donation of books in... (www.franklinma.gov)
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TIL about Roy Pearson, a judge who sued his dry cleaners for $54 million after he accused them of losing his pants (abcnews.go.com)
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TIL Out of 7 recorded incidents of "talk-down landings" - when the pilot becomes incapacitated and the plane is landed by a passenger with assistance over the radio - All were successful, with no i... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the green on the flag of Brazil represents the House of Braganza for Pedro I while the yellow represents the House of Habsburg for Empress Maria Leopoldina (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that the chocolate bar known as "Milky Way" in the US is sold as "Mars" in the rest of the world and the chocolate bar known as "Milky way" outside the US is sold as "3 Musketeers" in the US (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that over 60% of modern Japanese vocabulary is borrowed from Middle Chinese. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL in the 1940s in Idaho they parachuted beavers into remote areas to help restore wetlands (earthsky.org)
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TIL: Famine is not a natural disaster — nearly all historical famines, such as the Irish Potato Famine, are primarily man-made. (www.npr.org)
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