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TIL confederate soldiers of the American Civil War are not considered Veterans and are still officially traitors to the US.

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OoYjY TIL after legendary banker J.P. Morgan died in 1913 with a net worth of "only" $80M, John D. Rockefeller said "and to think, he wasn't even a rich man".
yVAWl TIL the only survivor of a mid-air collision between 2 planes over Amur Oblast (that killed her husband & 36 others) fell 5,220 meters while holding onto a piece of the plane. After waiting 2 days in the woods with fractures to her arms, ribs & spine, she began to walk on the 3rd & found rescuers.
paw8 TIL Lincoln, NE was named after Abraham Lincoln as a ploy to keep Nebraska’s capital as Omaha. Many people in Nebraska had been sympathetic to the Confederate cause and it was assumed that the legislature would not change the capital if the new capital were named after Abraham Lincoln
RQkw TIL Mars makes 2 billion M&Ms every 8 hours.
d8xy9 TIL that the children of Holocaust survivors are more susceptible to stress due to hormonal changes in their parents from the trauma of the Holocaust. Their children inherited these traits.