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TIL that six revolutionary war vets lived to witness the civil war and that only three of them lived to see its end. Lemuel Cook was the oldest dying at 106 in 1866.

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BrZ5r TIL April 18, 1930, was such a slow news day that at 6:30 PM, the BBC's radio announcer said, “There is no news."
lJdV TIL that North Korea has abducted–in addition to around 485 South Koreans–Japanese, Chinese, Malaysians, French, Italians, and other citizens mainly for them to teach languages at spy schools.
jNeeE TIL that Andrew Johnson Was Drunk During His Inauguration.
rNkW TIL the Doctor who claimed a link between vaccines and autism created fraudulent data for his paper and lost his medical license as a result.
VMNB0 TIL that in ancient Egypt, licorice was used as medicine