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TIL Ohio Cemetery removed and later reinstalled a 6.8ft tall SpongeBob headstone that belongs to Army Sgt. Kimberly Walker

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VM1D4 TIL in 2013, female stockings covered in fake male hair became a fashion hit in China as a way to deter unwanted male attention.
xV8Qo TIL a West Virginia town asked the Soviet Union for foreign aid to rebuild a bridge
OJxg TIL a slave named Gordon ran away from a Mississippi plantation and used onions to throw bloodhounds off his scent. He went on to become a Union soldier during the Civil War. His photo was used by abolitionists to cast light on the brutality of slavery.
RpD6 TIL China returns all illegal immigrants from North Korea which usually imprisons them in a short term facility. Women who are suspected of being impregnated by Chinese fathers are subjected to forced abortions; babies born alive are killed, sometimes by exposure or being buried alive.
LkwAv TIL that the exterior of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon is not stone. It is beveled wood siding painted with lead paint and coated with sand so as to resemble sandstone blocks.