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TIL we have a photograph of a man who fought in the Revolutionary War

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GYpAj TIL there's a 15,000 mile long hiking trail in Canada that goes from coast to coast.
QNeb6 TIL while suffering dementia near the end of her life, Harriet Beecher Stowe re-wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin nearly word-for-word believing it was a new book.
nWwNo TIL there's a type of tree in Cancun called the "tourist tree" because the tree's bark is red and peeling, like the skin of the sunburnt tourists in the region
lX9K TIL Google was Ordered to Pay Fine by France for Making Google Maps Free
GAJEQ TIL that Timbaland plagiarized "Acidjazzed Evening" - a chiptune style track composed by Janne Sunni, to create the pop song "Do It". While he admitted to sampling, Timbaland did not believe his usage constituted 'stealing' and called the allegations 'ridiculous'.