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TIL there is also a Tomb of Unknows Civil War soldiers. 2,111 unidentifiable casualties found in 1866

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grm8D TIL there's a novel out of Canada where a woman falls in love with a bear (and yes they do it) "the best Canadian novel of all time.", "quintessential Canadian book", "Books That Make You Proud to Be a Canadian." and "spiritual gangrene... a Faustian compact with the Devil."
e0Avn TIL Forrest Gump was based on a book, and the book had a sequel in which they mention the movie and Forrest meets Tom Hanks, specifically as to avoid being able to make a movie from that book
p8XLp TIL That Charlie Barnett a former street performer who would go on to fame on 'Miami Vice' was almost a member of the 1981 SNL cast. He was passed over after it was discovered he was functionally illiterate. His replacement was an equally unknown comedian named Eddie Murphy.
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