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TIL that there was a band called “Previously On Lost” that summarized each week’s episode in song.

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lopmG TIL about Donut Dollies, women who traveled through war zones to serve donuts to troops during WW2
kDkB TIL the Hammer of Thor is an approved religious symbol for veteran gravestones in the US and two soldiers have such headstones
VM08k TIL When being sworn in as Vice President, Andrew Johnson gave a drunken address to Congress while Lincoln watched sadly. Afterwards he hid from ridicule at a friends house and Lincoln assured the public he wasn’t a “drunkard”. A month later Lincoln was assassinated and he became President.
grrj7 TIL that Mushrooms have their own language. A professor at the University of the West of England found in his lab that the electrical signals of four species of fungi pulse in patterns that are similar in structure to human languages.
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