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TIL of The Anonymous Project, a collection of castoff photos, a lot of them Kodachrome, from years gone by.

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WKeX TIL Alexander Hamilton and James Madison both claimed to have written numbers 49-58 and 62-63 of the Federalist Papers. In 1964, a computer analysis of the text revealed that Madison was indeed the author of all 12 of those essays, despite Hamilton’s claim to the contrary.
dDrwK TIL: 2 and 3 toed sloths are more distant evolutionary relatives than humans and chimpanzees, 30m vs 6m years
b9eL7 TIL of the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment) who were assigned to fight with the French Army in WWI because US commanders refused to accept them for combat duty with white American troops - They went on to become the most decorated American unit of the war.
gMD4 TIL Everyone used to sleep twice in once night, they would wake up at midnight to have sex and read or tell stories.
GvWN TIL the memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s has been successfully reversed. In a small study using a 36-point, customized therapeutic program, 9 of 10 patients showed sustained improvement