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TIL that as an American. This will be the first Veterans Day observed without a living World War One veteran.

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GY0xQ TIL hydrogen peroxide comes in brown bottles because exposure to light decomposes the solution.
yQgV8 TIL children not only recognize race from a very young age, but also develop racial biases by ages three to five that do not necessarily resemble the racial attitudes of adults in their lives.
p8vVe TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.
E1BEd TIL that Prince Andrew Andreevich Romanov, the heir to the former Russian monarchy, is an artist currently living in California
RnP1 TIL in the final weeks of WWII, Allied torpedo bombers attacked two large German ships even though both ships were flying several large white flags. Nearly all of the 7,000 concentration camp refuges aboard these ships were killed.