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TIL that there is a monument in Estonia honoring Estonians who served in the Nazi German Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS

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wL8Zo TIL: The founder of the Smithsonian never visited the United States. But in 1901, when his grave in Italy was to be relocated to make room for a quarry, Alexander Graham Bell, a Smithsonian regent, proposed moving his remains to the Smithsonian. So the museum ended up collecting its founders remains
WdoB TIL that the state of Washington could have been named Columbia, but was instead named Washington in order to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia
8Wyb TIL There is a species of firefly in the U.S.’s Great Smokey Mountains that synchronize their flashing patterns so that they all light up at the same time.
wkNW TIL sniffer dogs used for finding illegal substances are largely inaccurate, with 4 in 5 ‘positive’ cases being wrong.
8a1gK TIL Pandemic Emergency Bonds pay out as much as 11.5% a year unless 2,500 people die in one particular country with an additional 20 deaths in another, in which case investors lose all of their money.