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TIL the last surviving Civil War Pension recipient died less than 10 weeks ago.

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VWP0 TIL that according to neuroscientist ‘Sam Harris’; humans are just robots without real freewill, and that our brain activity can been used to predict our decisions up to 10 seconds before we become consciously aware of it.
yQlVv TIL J. Edgar Hoover recommended that Einstein be kept out of America by the Alien Exclusion Act, but he was overruled by the U.S. State Department. FBI spied on Einstein for 22 years and kept a dossier with 1400+ Pages on him.
e0eNb TIL that Nintendo could lose 257 000 000$ per year and still be able to survive until 2052.
pYJdZ TIL Germany had secret plans to invade Boston and New York City prior to WWI. It would have required 60 warships, and 100,000 soldiers. German troops were to land at Cape Cod, and Sandy Hook NJ, and fire shells into Boston and Manhattan in an effort to induce panic among civilians.
ADZXd TIL Mikhail Kalashnikov regretted creating the AK-47. In a letter to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2012, he said never intended for the rifle to become the preferred weapon in conflicts around the world.