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TIL: Unclaimed dead in NYC are buried in a mass grave on an island run by the Dept. of Corrections and staffed by convicts; Over 50,000 bodies are buried there and the press isn’t allowed to enter.

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6Erw8 TIL in 1973 a Concorde aircraft prototype performed the longest observation of a total solar eclipse (74 minutes)
MZaB TIL: Aged 64 and living in Ireland, women gets her baby pic and a letter in post explaining she’s the result of a Nazi experiment …
6Ew1m [TIL] The only original flying Fw190 from WW2, was found intact in a forest outside Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) Russia in 1989.
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