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TIL Irene Triplett who died 2 months ago was the last living child of a Civil War veteran.

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KY0mG TIL I learned that “ginseng poaching” is both a family tradition and common crime in the Smoky Mountains with prominent bandits sporting names like “Billy Joe Hurley”
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P1A6E TIL about the Braunschweig meteorite, a 1.3kg meteorite that hit a concrete path in Germany, leaving a 3cm deep/7cm wide crater, presumably the smallest impact crater we know of.
npVb TiL that, during the Iranian Embassy Siege, when given the choice of who from their number would be released, the hostages chose a man whose loud snoring was keeping them awake
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