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TIL The sum of odd numbers starting at 1 is always a square number.

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nZe7 TIL that, after years of denials, the CIA admitted to gathering records on activist Noam Chomsky during the Vietnam War. It also destroyed those records, in apparent violation of federal law.
Z8k7R TIL The original Hamilton actors that played John Laurens/Phillip Hamilton and Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds are engaged in real life
ZKMa TIL there’s a man who uses his hands and feet to climb rocks, buildings, and 100-foot walls like a monkey – and it started with a suicide attempt.
4Xjpg TIL in 2013 the IRS was audited for spending $49 million in parties over 3 years, as well as a Star Trek parody video
EVPW TIL that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, is empty. In 1998, the remains were identified as USAF 1st Lt. Michael Blassie, and were reinterred in St. Louis, MO - his hometown.