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TIL survivors of the USS Arizona have the option to have their ashes placed within the ship upon their passing.

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YpXyZ TIL that Barry White was a gangmember in South Central, LA and after his brothers murder, doing time in jail and listening to an Elvis song he left the gang life and began singing love songs.
OX5R TIL that one of the first things free blacks could grow, eat, and sell were watermelons. It became a symbol of freedom that was corrupted into a negative stereotype by southern whites and still persists today.
9wvoD TIL The concept of using human shields as a weapon of resistance was created by Mahatma Gandhi
j68yN TIL about a chair made from the wood of the medieval London bridge with a seat made from a foundation stone of the same bridge.
nEjo TIL Astronomers have found a mind-bogglingly large structure – so big it takes light 10 billion years to traverse