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TIL that there is a book sequel to Forrest Gump in which Forrest helps develop New Coke, crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, meets Tom Hanks, and fights in Operation Desert Storm with an orangutan named Sue

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x6Eg7 TIL The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has its own version of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights: The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
8a418 TIL about the remains of 158 unknown Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Williamsburg VA next to The Governor’s Palace. I visited there last week and this really left an impression on me.
56LR TIL As a form of protest, Afghan women write landays—bawdy or sad poems with 22 syllables that often mock their sexist society.
X4kD TIL The Empire State Building’s spire was originally meant as a dirigible docking station.
EaJp TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. President to fly in a plane - and he nearly fell out. He described it as ‘the bulliest experience of this life’