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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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wMKY TIL if humans only ate raw, unprocessed food, we would need to eat for 9.3 hours a day in order to fuel our brains.
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X01vj TIL that in 2006 the Red Cross replaced the Heimlich Maneuver with back blows and ab thrusts, which are safer and better.
5VGxn TIL that the oldest “yo mamma” joke was discovered on a 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet in Iraq in 1976. The tablet has since been lost, but the text remains preserved.
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