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TIL Mary Magdalene's tomb was excavated in 1279 and today her intact skull is kept in a glass dome in a crypt outside Provence, France.

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QJjXM TIL the 98th Illinois Regiment, part of General William T. Sherman's 23rd Army Corps, made their Corps battle flag from captured Confederate flags from the southern arsenal in Macon, Georgia, during Sherman's famous March to the Sea
M7R87 TIL about Oliver Sipple a man who stopped an assasination attempt on US president Gerald Ford in 1975, however the news also told that this man was gay and because of that it generated great controversy, even so that the president only wrote a note thanking him and his family disowned him.
W00L TIL Demetri Martin is 40
9YQrB TIL despite a heart condition and arthritis that forced him to use a cane, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. led the assault on Utah Beach, becoming the only general to land with the first wave of D-Day. When his craft drifted a mile off target, he told his men, "We’ll start the war from right here!"
XO96 TIL the crew of Gummo found the filming locations in real bug infested homes so disgusting that they wore hazmat suits. Finding this offensive to the homeowners, Harmony Korine and the cinematographer wore nothing but speedos and filp flops on set to spite the crew.