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TIL the last person to receive a Civil War pension died in June 2020.

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XEdZ6 TIL That there is a distinct variety of mosquito that's evolved to live in the London Underground - unlike its above-ground counterpart, it doesn't hibernate and feeds mostly on human blood, rather than bird
M6G0 TIL A woman had her DUI dismissed after she presented a judge with evidence of her ‘Auto-brewery syndrome’. A rare condition in which the gut ferments carbohydrates, producing the ethanol that gets them drunk.
Avpd TIL The company that made the first real spacesuits for the Apollo program only made women’s undergarments up to that point.
5YQnP TIL That the Allies secretly built two entire portable harbors in the UK and towed them across the English Channel right after D-Day to attach to the just-captured beachheads. One was damaged in a storm. The other landed over 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tons of supplies.
j6AgR TIL abot the The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed the "Six Triple Eight", a predominantly black battalion of the Women's Army Corps (WAC).