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TIL that a widow of a WWII veteran never learned the exact fate of her husband. After 68 years she found that he was not only buried in France. But that a town in France has been honoring him for the last 68 years.

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LWvZ TIL, A man made a song using a picture of birds he took on a telephone wire, the result is quite amazing