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TIL The US Marshals recovered North Carolina’s copy of the U.S. Bill of Rights in 2003 via a sting operation after it was stolen from the State Capitol by a union soldier following the civil war.

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v1KRK TIL "50% of US marriages end in divorce" statistic is very misleading. In reality, divorce rates peaked in the early 1980s and have been steadily decreasing since then. If current trends continue, only one third of today's marriages will end in divorce.
1aePP TIL Few tourists venture to Mindanao, the Philippines’ second largest and second most populous island as it is considered unsafe. Even Mindanao's tourism manager encounters few actual tourists and assumed an Englishman was there to find a wife
WkPmN TIL that George S. Patton, before being temporarily appointed to the General Staff Corps in Boston, saved several children from drowning in August of 1923 when they fell off a yacht during a boating trip off Salem, MA. He was awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal for this action.
Y7LQ7 TIL James Longstreet, one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Lee, became an anathema to many Confederates post-war due to his support for the Republican Party as well as critical comments he wrote about Lee's wartime performance
aQdN TIL of the Peter Principle: Employees tend to be promoted based on their performance in their current role, not how fit they are for their next role, so that every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence