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TIL The U.S. Pentagon has more members of the military serving in marching bands than the State Department has career diplomats.

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EVPW TIL that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, is empty. In 1998, the remains were identified as USAF 1st Lt. Michael Blassie, and were reinterred in St. Louis, MO - his hometown.
xZM1 TIL The US Government spent 20 years and $20m on an experimental project to test and train telepaths for military use
GpnE TIL upon hearing that the Crusaders had lost Jerusalem in 1187, Pope Urban III suffered a heart attack and died
dDZpr TIL Edgar Allen Poe was inspired to write his famous poem 'The Raven' by an actual, taxidermized raven that was once owned by Charles Dickens. it is now on display in the the Free Library of Philadelphia.
1aDl8 TIL that a "mirror world" is a representation of the real world in digital form.