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TIL a man in Alabama has spent three decades building a stone wall by hand to honor his great-great-grandmother, a Yuchi Indian woman who was forced along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma following the slaughter of her family by whites and then spent 5 years walking more than 1,000 miles back home.

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ADB44 TIL the coelacanth, a prehistoric lobed-finned fish, was believed to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous Era 66 millions years ago, until they were rediscovered extant off the coast of South Africa in 1938.
x6jMb TIL that theoretically, the Earth costs $5 quadrillion and a human life costs $10 million
RAr4 TIL that in 2004 Coca Cola introduced their ‘Dasani’ water brand to the UK and it was discovered to be London mains water simply put through reverse osmosis. Somehow they also introduced a carcinogen called bromate into the water and the brand was shut down.
GDBN TIL Switzerland has over 3,000 points of demolition to stop invaders, w/bridges rigged to detonate &/or fall on railways, artificial landslides, & hidden artillery are set. On the German side, ALL tunnels are rigged, & mountains are hollowed for whole divisions. Military deception is everywhere.
ek16 TIL the X’s that you often see on the sides old moonshine jugs in cartoons and popular media actually signified how many times that particular batch had gone through the still, being that the basic pot-stills of yesteryear required you to distill the mash several times before you got pure alcohol.