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TIL that during Hurricane Sandy, one of the Sentinels that guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Sergeant Shane Vincent, volunteered to stand watch over the Tomb for a full 23-hours.

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m1lPy TIL when Théodore Géricault was painting “The Raft of the Medusa,” he met with survivors of the disaster, built a replica raft, and purchased multiple human limbs and a severed head which he took back to his studio in order to accurately portray the colour and texture of decaying flesh. [NSFW]
D1Geg TIL Because of its massive size, a T-Rex could only run at 12 miles per hour. If it ran any faster, its bones would've shattered.
Yk4d TIL During Christmas time in Newfoundland, people called mummers dress up in crude disguises and go from house to house. At each house they visit, they start dancing, playing music, and get wasted drunk while the hosts try to discover their true identities.
6E4M8 TIL natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in Gabon, Africa. They operated for a few hundred thousand years and generated an average of 100kW of power.
165k4 TIL about Kowloon Walled City. A Chinese military fort-turned-slum which, by the 1980’s, was the most densely populated city on Earth. A city with no regulations or government, where up to 50k people lived.