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TIL that out of the six Marines depicted in the iconic “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” photo, only three of them would survive the battle.

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VBn5m TIL that fortune telling for monetary compensation is illegal in the state of Pennsylvania.
4nD6 TIL Charles Cros invented both a method of colour photography and the phonograph. While Cros submitted his ideas to the French Academy of Sciences first, he never managed to patent them first.
4Xe8J TIL that the "thicc" "succ" way of spelling comes from the gang Crips not wanting to use the letter combination "CK" because it stands for "Crip Killer"
ADoV7 TIL in 1054, Chinese astronomers noted a bright "guest star" in Taurus that was visible in the daytime for 3 weeks and didn't completely fade out for almost two years. The "guest star" was actually the supernova explosion that created the Crab Nebula, which is located some 6,500 light-years away.
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