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TIL Hurricane Sandy sank the HMS Bounty (the ship used in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies), was predicted to be a 100 billion dollar storm, and still, the Sentinels who guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers stood guard through it all.

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ADLnB TIL France is poorer than every US state except for Mississippi
Brjvr TIL that when Glacier National Park, Montana, was named the around 80 glaciers in the park made the name an obvious choice. Today there are fewer than 30 glaciers left. With the number getting smaller and smaller.
rN504 TIL that North Korea Has a Space Program that has put 2 Satellites into Orbit and plans on going To the moon By 2026 and Mars
Meo18 TIL that in 1920 a thief named Carl Panzram broke into the home of former president William H. Taft and stole his gun. Over the next few years he became a serial killer and killed 10 people with Taft's gun.
WbKN TIL the tongue map that shows parts of the tongue responsible for different aspects of taste is the result of a mistranslation from a German paper and is not true