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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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VNBk TIL that not all documents of the JFK assassination were released to the public. When questioned about it Chief Justice Earl told reporters that it may not be released in their lifetime. That was more than 50 years ago and in 2017 they will be made public.
6bGQ TIL that pygmy chimpanzees often engages in 69s, gay- and lesbian sex, and they also celebrate finding food with orgies.
0wW1v TIL that in the early 20th century, patients with syphilis were successfully treated by being transfused with infected blood from people with malaria. The researcher was given the 1929 Nobel Prize for his discovery.
l7pmA Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection
jNYkn TIL that The Wright Brothers achievement of powered human flight went largely unnoticed and unacknowledged by the American public for years.