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TIL that the unknown soldier for Vietnam was identified and later recovered and returned to his family after 26 years.

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Y7xnA TIL learned that Waffle House stays open 24/7/365 so reliably, even in disaster scenarios, that it's informally used by FEMA as a metric for disaster severity ("If Waffle House closes, get out of there!"). Their preparedness measures include mobile emergency generator trucks and "Jump Waffle Teams"
vjKL TIL NC banned the use of scientific predictions of sea-level rise in determining coastal policies
DQapV TIL that Anne Frank's stepsister is still alive. Eva Schloss and her family lived in the same apartment block as the Franks, and she often played with Anne and Margot. She and her mother survived Auschwitz, and her mother resumed her friendship with Otto Frank after the war. They married in 1953.
1ay5d TIL a 2011 study found that 47% adults in Detroit were functionally illiterate
ygp8 TIL that door knobs made out of brass automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours through the oligodynamic effect