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TIL that while Emperor Charles I of Austria's body is buried in Madeira, where he had been exiled following the Dissolution of Austria-Hungary, his heart is currently held in the Muri Abbey, a monastery near Zürich, Switzerland

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e0RB5 TIL that while the Bald Eagle is widely known as a national symbol of the United States, the American Bison is the national mammal. The population of American Bison, once 60+ million, dropped to <600 by 1889, but due to conservation efforts is now 500k and growing.
0wapM [TIL] Al Capone's son was deaf, and the mobster learned sign language to be able to speak to him.
vPA6x TIL that the first man to drive across the U.S. did it because of a $50 bet and beat two other teams who were crossing at the same time
KYwnE TIL of the Battle of Tettenhall, where the Anglo-Saxons caught a Viking Raider force before the Vikings could get back to their boats and annihilated them.
6p1w TIL a police commissioner who claimed he had spent hours researching sticky bombs distributed printouts about them. All of the information he gathered came from the Terraria Wiki.