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TIL the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington Virginia is actually named the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial.

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4kdMw TIL: One scientific theory suggests that the passage of time is due to our expanding universe. As the universe expands, it pulls time with it because space and time are linked as one. So if the universe were to stop expanding and begin to contract, then time would reverse
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N78Yb TIL that there is a town in Canada named Dildo.
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