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TIL There are currently 98 listed belief emblems for military headstones

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MeDjW TIL 'Organic' food in the EU does not mean 'no pesticides.' It means up to 28 pesticides allowed.
d6j8 TIL that Irene Triplett, an 84-year-old woman in North Carolina, still collects a monthly Civil War pension of $73.13 from the Department of Veterans Affairs. She is the last child of any Civil War veteran still on the VA benefits rolls.
mnBO TIL that Catalan activist Enric Duran took out 68 loans from a total of 39 banks between 2006-2008, with no collateral, and no intention of repaying, and used the money to finance activist movements, as an act of ‘financial civil disobedience’
xL7w TIL that a total of 272 people die in Breaking Bad (SPOILERS)
W7ky9 TIL That research has shown that the best strategy for playing the board game "Guess Who?" is to ask narrow questions, rather than broad ones.