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TIL that the Roanoke colonists who "vanished" in the late 1500s may have moved to Hatteras Island and integrated with the Croatoan tribe.

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loLVB TIL National Men's Day was a thing.
yrJp TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a date through Tinder with a girl camping just 45 minutes away.
gMMAL TIL That Russian criminal gang tattoos all have a meaning/purpose, such as Stalin across vital organs in the belief a firing squad would not shoot that image.
wL5DJ TIL of the Photorevolver, a camera hidden inside a non-functional firearm invented in 1882, which allowed the user to pull the “gun’s” trigger to close the camera’s shutter. Only 14 photorevolvers were built, with only a handful thought to survive today, with prices between $50,000 and $120,000.
epEVD TIL the most divorced person ever of monogamous marriages was a baptist minister. He had married 31 times, mostly to teenagers, because he just “spoke their language” and ONLY five marriages end by the death of the spouse.