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TIL Two sailors died when trying to salute then VP Millard Fillmore (Roadside America)

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wLRp6 TIL Omaha Beach sand is up to 4% microscopic iron fragments from D-Day
6948Z TIL: The Horses of Medieval Times Weren't Much Bigger Than Modern-Day Ponies
40VJ TIL that in 2002, a fire at a girls’ school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killed fifteen girls. It has been strongly suggested that their deaths occured due to the involvement of the “religious police,” who prevented them from leaving the building because the girls were not wearing correct Islamic dress.
Zlap TIL Jodie Foster is so fluent in French, she dubs her own movies
QgGa TIL In 1957, an explosion occurred at a plutonium plant in the USSR, resulting in the third worst nuclear accident in history. The government kept it secret for 19 years.