› added 10 years ago

179

TIL the American Unknown Soldier of Vietnam was identified in 1998, exhumed and reburied with full honours. The tomb of the unknown of vietnam is now a memorial for Honoring And Keeping Faith With America’s Missing Servicemen

Read more nlm.nih.gov

via reddit.com

wLZjE TIL strengths (9 letters) is the longest word in the English language with only one vowel.
d8G4K TIL the first time Led Zeppelin licensed one of its songs for commercial use was giving the song "Rock And Roll" to Cadillac for a television commercial. The band earned a "ridiculous" fee for this but Cadillac saw sales increase by 16% the following year.
yQgGX TIL that a dental worker once injected herself with mercury and survived
bEOj TIL that the city of Portland, Oregon flushed 58 million gallons of water down the drain because a 19-year-old named Dallas Swonger peed in its municipal reservoir
9Ed6 TIL Tagalog is the fifth most spoken language in the united states, ranking higher than Vietnamese, Korean, German, Arabic and Russian.