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TIL that the wounds of some Civil War soldiers glowed at night, supposedly gifting them with strange recuperative powers. It was known as “Angel’s Glow”.

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j6jRX TIL The town of Curtis, Nebraska is so desperate for new residents they are offering free plots of land if you agre to build a house and no string cash incentives if you enroll your child in local school. The plots are on paved streets with access to utilities.
GAPn1 TIL about the Moon is Down by John Steinbeck (1942), the most popular piece of Allied propaganda in Nazi occupied Europe during WWII. Steinbeck was awarded the Freedom Cross by the King of Norway after the war for having “bolstered the morale of his entire war-ravaged nation”.
lRyV TIL that Canadian solider Leo Major made so much noise during a battle in WW2 that he made the German army think that the entire Canadian army was invading
xV0LD TIL that in 1833, the first passenger ship to make a transatlantic voyage almost entirely steam-powered was the SS Royal William
xNE1 TIL 84% of Vegetarians & Vegans go back to eating meat.