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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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BdJL TIL that there is a pistol called the Armatix Smart System iP1. the Pistol won’t fire unless a radio-signal watch is located within 40 cm of the pistol, and the watch won’t activate unless a finger print and a PIN code are entered into it.
kOmY5 TIL in 1967, hippies attempted a ritual to levitate the Pentagon in the air to end the Vietnam War.
aXZb TIL that people lived in caves in Scotland until 100 years ago when it was outlawed
MeQrm TIL that the superhero Black Panther predates the founding of the Black Panther Party, and Marvel even changed the name for a while to "Black Leopard" in order to avoid confusion
XEdYE TIL in 2008, a woman who had been missing for 24 years was discovered to be locked up against her will in her father's basement for all those years. In a prison interview, the father said: "Just look into the cellars of other people, you might find other families and other girls down there."