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TIL The US Marines found a stockpile of Taliban weapons in 2010 that contained a 1915 Lee-Enfield Bolt Action rifle still being used.

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W6R9 TIL that faking confidence can positively change your brain chemistry and your life
0yGL TIL that in 1964 while federal authorities were searching for 3 civil rights workers presumed murdered by the KKK in Mississippi their search yielded the remains of another 8 blacks that had been murdered by the KKK including a 14 year old boy.
WONY TIL Eiffel Tower designer Gustave Eiffel included a ‘secret’ apartment for himself near the top!
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nWvXG TIL that Charles V, at the height of his reign, controlled Spain, southern Italy, the Holy Roman Empire, Burgundy, and Spanish America. This was the first empire to called "the empire on which the sun never sets".