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VMNBm TIL: King George III's Statue: George Washington’s Men Beheaded And Melted It Down For Bullets In 1776
YpmOP Today I learned that "went" used to be the past tense of "wend" not go. Go's past particle was gaed.
9Y586 TIL According to one analysis of military veterans in the Uk, 50,000 are coping with mental health conditions, 10,000 are in prison, on parole or on probation and 6,000 have no permanent address.
rd54 TIL the U.S. bombed China’s embassy in Belgrade almost 15 years ago, killing three Chinese journalists. The bombing was blamed on outdated maps, but it was later revealed that the CIA actually possessed up-to-date maps.
Z8JrQ TIL about the Kentucky meat shower of 1876, where pieces of meat appeared to fall on Bath County. One theory is that a flock of vultures vomited in the area; the meat was said to taste like lamb or deer. Another is that the meat was a cyanobacteria which expands to a jelly-like mass when wet.