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TIL It costs $6 to visit Karl Marx' grave.

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wLYO8 TIL that Hiram Revels was the first African-American Senator. He took the seat of Jefferson Davis, who was the president of the Confederacy
jAMp TIL Railguns are capable of firing objects with a muzzle velocity of 20 km/s (mach 59) but generate so much heat that repetitive tests would wear down the rails too quickly to be efficient.
VQw8 TIL: 4 Marlboro Men Have Died Of Smoking Related Diseases
oRWN8 TIL Thomas Edison fabricated the Electric Chair as part of a smear campaign designed to paint Nikola Tesla's Alternating Current (AC) power as more dangerous than Edison's Direct Current (DC) power.
7Ge7 TIL Cosmo is over a hundred years old and started out as a literary magazine containing stories and articles from Nobel Prize winners Sinclair Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway. They didn’t give out shitty relationship advice and horrifying sex tips until 1965.