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TIL that people were drafted in WWI and WWII specifically to bury soldiers killed in action

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x99B TIL that Tyler Perry’s films have a 29.8% average rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Average rating for Ed Wood, posthumous winner of the Golden Turkey Award for ‘Worst Director of All Time’: 37.3%.
aL6M TIL there was a terrorist organization in the late 1940s in Brazil, made up of Japanese immigrants that believed Japan had won WWII. They urged Japanese Brazilians who did not believe them to commit seppuku, and executed those who didn’t.
xvPg TIL the summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone made up of fossilised remains of ocean creatures
JAb8 TIL the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, the longest continuous bridge passing over water, is so long that for 8 of its 24 miles, you can’t see land in any direction.
e8XJ TIL that Alien Ant Farm crashed the BET awards in 2003 to film their music video for “These Days”. They were arrested for the act.