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TIL Pound town is a town in Wisconsin

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7rp9O TIL That the 1961 Lincoln Continental Limousine that JFK was assassinated in was taken back to the motor-pool, cleaned up, reinforced and rotated back into service with the US Government until 1977
4XGWR TIL about Margaret Cochran a woman that fought in the American war of independence while disguised as a man. She was also the first woman to receive a military pension.
YpX7A TIL that the autistic spectrum and the distinction between "high functioning" and "low functioning" autism was discovered by Hans Asperger in an attempt to save children in his clinic from the Gestapo during World War 2, who killed disabled children in preparation for the Holocaust.
d88B9 There is 'no incentive for escalator manufacturers to do anything different.'
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