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TIL There are no reports throughout history of any one finding buried treasure, pirate or not. "In reality, pirates burying treasure was rare. Buried treasure is a literary trope commonly associated with depictions of pirates, criminals, and Old West outlaws. "

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x6LYD TIL about Qian Xuesen, an early scientist at Jet Propulsion Lab who was later accused of being a communist and was deported to China where he helped start that country's satellite and rocket industries, a move a US Secretary of Navy later said was "the stupidest thing this country ever did"
69EYw TIL Walter Ortmann from Brazil holds the Guinness World Record for longest career working in a same company which is 84 years. His age is now 100.
QN87E TIL Michael Shaara's book The Killer Angels, 1975 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and the basis for the 1993 movie Gettysburg, reached the top of the NYT best seller list twenty years after being published. The Civil War battle novel is considered one of the best historic fictions ever written.
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yQ0Qw TIL that the fictional character from DC Comics Bruce Wayne is an Atheist.