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TIL JFK’S main funeral honor Guard were all Irish soldiers flown to the United States at the request of Jacqueline Kennedy who stated that JFK had been enthralled and impressed by how the Irish military honored their dead on his visit to Ireland.

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6EYGJ TIL Czar Nicholas II approved a tunnel across the Bering Strait in 1905 (with a cost estimated at $65 million and $300 million including all the railroads) although the plan was abandoned with the advent of WWI and the Russian Revolution.
LQgy9 TIL: The Mediterranean Sea has a high salinity because around 5 million years ago it, for not 100% known reasons, dried up for roughly 500,000 years.
wLBj7 TIL that only mammals to experience menopause are humans, killer whales and pilot whales . It is thought that older females have evolved to forfeit their ability to reproduce so they can use their energy to nurture their daughters’ offspring. This is known as the ‘grandmother hypothesis’.
rNeQM TIL that in 1958 interracial marriage was a felony in Virginia
70wO TIL; photographic memory is a skill that can be developed. And the military used some methods to make smarter soldiers.