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TIL that womens buttons are on the left because the maids would dress them.

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dDwEr TIL in 1913 the US government held a 50th anniversary Gettysburg reunion for veterans from the Union and Confederacy and the 2 sides treated each other as brothers and not former enemies.
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M7QRB TIL about the Mesha Stele, which documents the victory of a Moabite King, Mesha, over the Israelite led coalition, as confirmed in the Old Testament. The stele claims that the Moabite national god, Chemosh, has defeated Yahweh, as a consequence of the pivotal sacrifice of his firstborn son to him