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TIL that US Military tombstones come with 65 choices of religious symbol, including the hammer of Thor

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Z8DLG TIL a school suspended 9-year-old boy for pretending to be Bilbo Baggins. He brought a toy ring and told a classmate that he would make him disappear. They considered the child's action to be a threat, under the premise that no threat would be tolerated, whether real or imagined
Brple TIL Two orphan South Korean Sisters were separated in 40 years and were reunited while working on the same floor of the same shift in Florida Hospital
1EQ8 TIL that portions of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s doctoral dissertation were posthumously found to have been plagiarized verbatim from other sources.
EgQ0p TIL about the historical significance of the Industrial Revolution and its profound impact on society and economies worldwide.
p8p0A TIL the phrase "Long time no see" was originally a "broken English" phrase - the phrase has its origin from either a Native American or Chinese phrase