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TIL Local cemeteries refused to accept the Boston Marathon bomber's body and protesters actually took up a collection to try to have his body shipped to Russia.

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Pp1n TIL that Mythbuster’s Jamie Hyneman ran away from home at the age of 14 and then hitchhiked all over the US. After that he is now a certified diver,wilderness survival expert, boat captain, linguist, pet shop owner, animal wrangler, machinist, concrete inspector, and chef.
GYKxJ TIL today's prices in 2020 are 1,953.00% higher than average prices since 1800. The U.S. dollar experienced an average inflation rate of 1.38% per year
RZy4 TIL A single misplaced comma created a giant legal loophole in the 1972 U.S Tariff Act, costing the government $1,000,000.
jNvGa TIL that the late Astros player Bob Watson scored the MLB’s 1,000,000th run. The run was sponsored by Tootsie, so Watson was awarded 1,000,000 Tootsie Rolls for his achievement
BrA5d TIL the first submarine attack on a ship occurred in 1864, when the CSS Hunley sank the sloop-of-war USS Housatonic using a spar torpedo, a primitive form of torpedo that was, in essence, a bomb on the end of a stick encased in a motor boat.