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TIL a farmhouse in Gettysburg was used as field hospital. There was so much blood on the floor, that there is still dried blood between floorboards. When under a blacklight, large bloodstains are still visible

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R5JQ TIL that Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout was held captive by Somali insurgents for 460 days, suffering terrible abuse and malnutrition. Upon her release, she created a charity to help Somalians and returned to deliver food during the drought in 2011.
7rWrb TIL when chess player Bobby Fischer beat soviet grandmaster Taimanov, Taimanov was thrown off the USSR team, forbidden to travel, banned from writing articles, and deprived of his monthly stipend. It virtually ended his career.
vP044 TIL that the reason we feel groggy when we first wake up is caused by 'sleep inertia.' The gradual feeling of waking up is due to blood flow. Our 'primitive brain centers' get blood flow first and it isn't for 15 minutes or longer before blood flow returns to deeper thinking areas.
Lj6Z TIL: An artist accidentally used £20,000 worth of rare comics to create a papier-mache sculpture for an art exhibition.
VMDkD TIL Dan Aykroyd is a member of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), a group that's studied paranormal phenomena since 1885. Their work partly inspired him to write Ghostbusters.