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TIL Crows and Magpies Snatch Anti-Bird Spikes to Build Their Nests

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M7DvV TIL that after Colonel Shaw died in battle, Confederates buried him in a mass grave as an insult for leading black soldiers. Union troops tried to recover his body, but his father sent a letter saying "We would not have his body removed from where it lies surrounded by his brave and devoted soldiers
R7l87 TIL that the marker for the Four Corners Monument in the US where visitors put their bodies in four states at once, is off by 1,800 feet to the east meaning most tourists technically just visited New Mexico.
gavy TIL it is illegal for employers to have a “no-beard” policy unless it affects your job-related tasks
P0wG TIL Stanislav Petrov holds the title as “The man who saved the world” after stopping all out nuclear war
N8Je TIL that the second flag of the Confederate States of America was, in the words of its creator W.T. Thompson, a symbol of the “supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race”.