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TIL that the quartet/quintet "The Drifters" had 60 members.
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TIL During Hurricane Sandy, one soldier stood watch over the tomb of the unknown for an unprecedented 23 hours straight.
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TIL of the Office of the Future in Dubai, the first commercial building in the world to be 3D printed
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TIL: Donnie Dunagan is a Marine major that served in Vietnam and led a boot camp for years before retiring in 1977. He is also the voice of Bambi in the 1942 classic movie.
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TIL A young Chinese woman ran away to Beijing to avoid a planned marriage, but was followed by her fiance. After she became pregnant, her fiance abandoned her at a hotel and she narrowly avoided being sold to a brothel. A newspaper editor saved her and she wrote several novels before dying at 30
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TIL Time magazine had been naming a "Man of the Year" since 1927, but broke with tradition in 1982 to name the computer the "Machine of the Year". Ironically, the writer of the story wrote it on a typewriter, since Time's newsroom would not get computers for another year.