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TIL the states of Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas officially recognize Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday.

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PM0E TIL figs are not vegetarian
pkrN TIL that in 1987, FBI agent Robert Hanssen was tasked by his superiors to find a mole within the agency after the FBI’s moles in the KGB were caught. In reality, he was the mole, working with the KGB since 1979.
yQeoV TIL if you invested $1 each in stocks and gold in 1801, by 1998 you'd have over $500K in stock and 78 cents in gold.
oBpj8 TIL Mammoth Ivory trade is almost totally unregulated and undocumented, this is not easily distinguishable from elephant ivory and thus there is tangible risk of illegal international trade in elephant ivory being being deliberately mislabeling as mammoth ivory.
b66K7 TIL the only time the guillotine was used in North America was in 1889 in the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, just off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.