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TIL that the remains of the Vietnam War’s representative at America’s Tomb of the Unknown were finally identified 14 years after he was first entombed.

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Ov6X TIL that David Bowie’s permanently dilated pupil was the result of a punch to the face in a fight over a girl. Despite their altercation, he and George Underwood stayed friends and Underwood went on to do the artwork for Bowie’s early albums.
p8bwp TIL of Francis Salvador – elected to South Carolina’s Provincial Congress in 1774, he’s considered the first member of the Jewish faith to hold elective office in America. Killed in a joint Loyalist/Cherokee ambush in 1776, he became the first Jewish soldier to die for the Patriot cause.
Z81oQ TIL Jack Hinson went on a killing rampage after his sons were decapitated and his farm set ablaze by union soldiers during the civil war, he hunted union officers and sniped around 100 people as revenge
pbVp TIL that the civil rights song “Strange Fruit” made famous by Billie Holiday and Nina Simone was written by a white, Jewish, New York high school teacher who was a member of the Communist Party.
e00Zb TIL a "Lifetime Warranty" only covers an estimated lifespan of a product (which can just be a couple of months or years) and does not necessarily equal an actual human lifetime