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TIL that the guards of the Tomb of the Unknowns do not wear rank insignia so that they do not outrank the soldiers buried in the tomb, whatever their ranks may have been.

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xV9y0 TIL about "The Thomas Edison of Finland", Eric Tigerstedt, who was awarded 71 patents between 1912 and 1924, including one in 1917 for a "pocket-size folding telephone". He was tragically killed in a car accident on April 20, 1924, rumoured to have been caused by a competitor.
gMAQA TIL Michael J. Anderson, the actor who played The Man from Another Place in Twin Peaks, worked as a computer technician on the ground support system for NASA’s space shuttle prior to his acting career.
5YeWP TIL that when soils are saturated with water, in-ground pools are susceptible to float out of the ground after they are fully or partially emptied of water, otherwise known as a "popped pool".
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xBg TIL that Arabic numerals were not invented by Arabs, but by Indian mathematicians