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TIL the uniformed bugle "player" at veteran funerals is often simply playing a recording of taps from the bugle

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78ZJb TIL: Jamaican culture was influenced by Indian immigrants and that's where Rastafarianism comes from. Indians introduced curry, cannabis and even dreadlocks to Jamaica.
xomD TIL When King Charles II of Navarre was deathly ill, his physician ordered him to be wrapped and sewn into bed sheets that had been pre-soaked in brandy. A careless servant used a candle to burn the loose thread away, which set fire to the cloth and burned the king alive.
dDkdr TIL the city of Atlanta, GA is named after the Western & Atlantic railroad line
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b64oE [TIL] When Hideki Tojo was captured by Americans, a dentist secretly put in Morse code "Remember Pearl Harbor" into his pair of dentures