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TIL - The marine whose story inspired A Few Good Men was murdered execution style and his killer was never caught.

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jNe5n TIL that one of the most well known Presidents of the USA, Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt, was against putting "In God We Trust" on currency, saying it would "... cheapen such a motto by use on coins, postage stamps, or ads"
4XKDa Til the Statue of Liberty's hand sat in Madison Square park for 6 years before being installed. While the French paid for the statue, the US didn't want to pay for the pedestal, so to raise money, photographs were sold to tourists and for 50 cents, you could climb a ladder to the top of the torch.
BgQ0y TIL there are over 80 different federal law enforcement agencies in the United States
jN5Dp TIL the earliest recorded use of LOL as an initialism was for "little old lady" in the 1960s. During the Apollo mission, ferrite cores were used as transformers and acted as either a binary one or zero. The LOLs created the required software by weaving together sequences of one and zero cores.
BZZy TIL That the longer you wait to see a movie in theaters the more money the theater makes from your ticket.