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TIL About Hart Island in NYC, Final Resting Place for 1,000,000+ People

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Br8By TIL about Aleksey Maresyev, a pilot who was shot down in Nazi territory, lost the use of his legs, and crawled for eighteen days before returning to Soviet territory. His legs were then amputated. Nevertheless, within a year he was flying again on prosthetic legs.
mx1yE TIL that eating asparagus before drinking alcohol greatly reduces your hangover - aminoacids speed up the breakdown of alcohol and prevent damage to the liver.
oRMLE TIL that the Brontosaurus, for about 25 years, paleontologists thought it was real, but in 1903 it was reclassified as a species of Apatosaurus and declared "not real." Then, in 2015, new research confirmed that the Brontosaurus was distinct enough to be it's own genus, again...
b6Epa TIL The Volkswagen Type 1 was not officially called the Beetle until 1968; thirty years after the first model was built.
woMLE TIL Albert Henry Woolson outlived over two million Civil War Union Army comrades when he died on August 2, 1956, at the age of 106. At his death, he was recognized as the last surviving Union Army veteran.