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TIL the oldest known tattoos were discovered, using UV light, on a 5,000 year old mummy

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aw5XN TIL after his father and brother were killed by Confederate Home Guard, Henry Berry Lowrie led a band of American Indian, White, and African-American men in a guerrilla war against the Confederacy and later the upper class. He obtained a Robbin Hood like status and vanished without a trace in 1872.
gML8A TIL during WWII the Dominican Republic took in 100,000 Jewish people fleeing Europe
R7MG1 TIL the Occam's razor isn't the only philosophical razor, and there even is one called Newton's flaming laser sword which states "what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating"
YpWex TIL The most prolific narrator of hadiths (non Quranic stories and sermons of the Prophet) was known by the kunyah Abu Hurayrah "Father of a Kitten". Abu Hurayrah is a controversial figure as many of his 5374 hadiths lack witnesses to confirm them.
mx40M TIL that U.S. Route 50's endpoints in Ocean City, MD and West Sacramento, CA both have official road signs denoting that the other city is 3,073 miles away