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TIL that following the Civil War Robert E Lee was stricken of his citizenship and had to apply for it back. Instead of the letter reaching the president it was given as a souvenir to a friend of the secretary of state.

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Xxr TIL there is a website that helps you determine which candidate’s views are closest to your own.
EV8p TIL that contrary to popular notion, historians have never been able to find any mummies or kingly remains inside the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
VMeDm TIL In 1942 about 80,000 US citizens were, without any trial, detained in concentration camps by the US itself.
p8VNZ TIL Biomarkers in human sperm have been identified that can indicate a tendency to father children with autism spectrum disorder
R7VDj TIL A man only survived the 1902 Mount Pelee eruption, which killed 30,000 people, because he’d been thrown in jail the day before and his cell was partially underground. It had thick stone walls, a bomb-proof magazine, and a small slit for breathing with no other windows.