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TIL the US sailor kissing the nurse in the WWII photo taken in time square to celebrate the end of the war, was on a date with another women when he grabbed the stranger and the photo was taken. The other woman still married him

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woAL6 TIL Yellowstone’s famed thermal pools can melt flesh and bone. In 2016, a tourist illegally searching for a swimmable hot spring fell into a portion of the Norris Geyser Basin, where his body was dissolved by the boiling, highly acidic water. His wallet and shoes were all that remained of him.
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m1lBo TIL One of the main struggles for Alexander Graham Bell and his team was to prove to non-English speakers that this new phenomenon "worked in their language." It was a concept that was hard for people to understand at first