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TIL that people used to live in tree trunks

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4Xamw TIL the term military tattoo comes from the early 17th-century Dutch phrase doe den tap toe ("turn off the tap"), a signal sounded by drummers or trumpeters to instruct innkeepers to stop serving beer and for soldiers to return to their barracks
WkljB TIL the US Navy maintains a 64,000 acre grove of white oaks for the sole purpose of supplying timbers to restore the USS Constitution
L4P TIL that incidents of domestic violence with families of police officers are 2-4 times more common than in rest of the population.
VkEk TIL there is a mountain in Russia, called Magnitogorsk, made almost entirely of iron with an estimated 7-10 Billion pounds of Iron Ore
p8ZXb TIL Mongolian barbecue is not Mongolian - it was invented by a Taiwanese comedian/restaurateur.