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TIL About the Arlington Ladies. A volunteer organization, usually made up of the wives of General officers, their mission is to attend the funeral service of any US service member being buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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8aEna TIL that the most deadly mammal in the world is the dog with about 30 000 deaths a year, but the majority of these dogs are contaminated with rabies.
ZxJ4 TIL a town in North Carolina, fed up with Time Warner, built their own isp called Greenlight. Time Warner’s response was to lobby the state senate.
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VPn4 TIL Danny Glover used to drive a taxi. In 1999, he used his leverage as a former San Francisco cab driver to raise awareness about African Americans being passed over for white passengers.
Xe9X TIL that the first recorded human death by robot was on Jan. 25, 1979, when a Ford Motors assembly line worker was killed in Flat Rock, Michigan.