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TIL the second tallest monument in Arlington National Cemetery is a 32' tall bronze sculpture to Confederacy titled "New South" by the sculptor, and the Daughters of the Confederacy hold Confederate memorial day ceremonies there to this day.

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xVV0D TIL that Dollard Des Ormeaux, a mythical french soldier who blew himself up trying to throw a barrel of gunpowder 300 years ago and was made a martyr by the Catholic church
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