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TIL Pound town is a town in Wisconsin
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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
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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.
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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.
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There is 'no incentive for escalator manufacturers to do anything different.'
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TIL It is possible to see two sections of sunspots through a magnification of 50x through a filtered telescope at the Sun. There is a darker, cooler central portion with a surrounding lighter ring and 150x shows tiny grains called granules