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TIL Detroit’s motto in Latin is: “We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes.” Written in 1805.

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E14Gw TIL In 1932, General Macarthur and then Major Patton Tear-Gassed WWI Veterans Calling Themselves The "Bonus Army." They Had Marched On Washington Demanding Full Payment For Their Service During WWI. 2 Vets Were Killed. Historians Claim That Without The Protest, There May Have Never Been A GI Bill.
LyD0 TIL that the Soviet Union did not admit that a reactor had exploded at Chernobyl until nearly 3 days after radiation from the disaster set off alarms at a nuclear plant in Sweden 1000 km away.
09dR TIL Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
neeOr In part, we’re really just going back to our caveman roots.
nDrP TIL there are tilted windows in Vermont called “witch windows”. The name appears to come from a superstition that witches cannot fly their broomsticks through the tilted windows.