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TIL the Appalachian Trail became international in the 1990's and has since been extended with sections from the US through Canada, and into Greenland, Iceland, Europe, Britain, Ireland, Iberia, and into Africa

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x6y47 TIL: There is a excerpt from John Adam's diary where he describes the time he had to share a tiny bed with Benjamin Franklin and, instead of sleeping, they had an argument about whether to keep the windows open or closed. Franklin eventually won the argument when Adams got too tired and fell asleep.
wLRo1 TIL that a club of multidisciplinary scientists formed a group called NecroSearch, who volunteer to assist law enforcement in the location of clandestine graves and recovery of evidence (aka cold-case bodies). Their team is comprised of botanists, meteorologists and other technical specialists.
a801y TIL that disbarment for a lawyer in Wisconsin is only temporary
p8MO TIL: 35% of Democrats polled in 2007 believed the President or the CIA knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance.
rRWb1 TIL When Liechtenstein's army went to war for the last time in 1868, the country sent 80 soldiers to guard an Italian mountain pass. They returned with 81 soldiers because they befriended an Austrian on the way home.