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TIL that during Hurricane Isabel, sentries guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns remained at their post

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78pdM TIL about “The Apple Wassail”, an ancient Pagan ritual that holds origin to modern caroling.
KOArQ TIL that cheese making is ancient and predates recorded history. The earliest evidence of cheese making is 5500 BCE, in Kujawy, Poland, where fat molecules were found on ancient strainers.
p84LG TIL Joseph Stalin banned the field of genetics as capitalistic 'bourgeois pseudoscience', with fatal consequences for many Soviet scientists.
QJDoM TIL about Traci Lords, ex pornographic actress. Using a fake ID she became the most popular pornstar of the 80's at age 16. Just 2 days after her 18 birthday she retired from the adult industry. When this information was revealed all her films were banned, except the last one "Traci, I love you".
bE80 TIL that the last car to have a cassette deck come standard was the Lexus SC430, in 2010.