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TIL The Photos in the Cheers Opening montage were taken at a bar in Craigville, Minnesota in 1937

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OLK1 TIL there is a Royal Marine sniper that has 173 confirmed kills, 90 of them coming from a single day in Afganistan.
X0XRE TIL Abraham Lincoln once said "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races"
JYoe8 TIL in the Mongol army if one soldier ran from danger in battle he would be killed along with the nine comrades in his unit
Nvme TIL An unintended consequence of the DMZ in Korea is that it has become a wildlife sanctuary due to the lack of human interference.
erv6 TIL that in the Siberian wilderness lives a woman named Agafia Laikov, a 70 old woman who is the last survivor of a ultra orthodox sect that fled Stalins prosecution and had no contact with outsiders for 40 years, not hearing about world war2 until the 1980’s