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TIL The War in Afghanistan is officially the longest war in US history.

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WDVX TIL that even if all non-violent drug offenders were released from federal and state prisons the United States would still have the highest incarceration rate in the world
bVvZ TIL studies suggest that people who swear often, stay up late, and are messy, tend to have high IQ’s
E1DYW TIL in 1724 Margaret Dickson was hanged but later found still alive. She then was allowed to go free because under Scots Law her punishment had been carried out. Only later were the words “until dead” added to the sentence of hanging
EBg7 TIL Dimebag Darrell once asked Eddie Van Halen for a copy of his guitar “Bumblebee” from the cover of Van Halen II. Eddie said yes but forgot, but after Dimebag was killed he turned up at the viewing with the original and it is now buried with him.
xVgDB TIL of Richard Colvin Cox, “the only West Point cadet to have disappeared without a trace”.