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TIL Jason Everman played guitar in Nirvana and Soundgarden before quitting music and becoming a US Army Ranger and Green Beret

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NXB7J TIL in 2019, the UK granted asylum to a 14-year-old boy and admitted him to a local high school. He was asking 14yo girls out and changing with 14yo boys in PE. It later turned out he was actually an adult who was wanted for murder in Serbia.
9w8GG TIL that in 1862 a letter was found wrapped around an unlit cigar laying in the grass. The secret dispatch #191 gave away Robert E. Lee's troop movements and helped lead to a narrow Northern victory in the battle of Antietam.
RMk9 TIL there’s a parasite that can “hijack” the brain of invertebrates, amphibians, and mammals
J1Jd8 TIL Germany’s Goettingen State University Library seeks to house everything printed in 70 Siberian and Arctic languages. In Siberia there are nearly zero publications in these languages because so many of the minority languages are nearly dead
KYWbJ TIL about Stoccareddo, an isolated Italian village known for its inbreeding, founded by a single family 800 years ago the village grew to 400 people today, 95% of which share the same surname of the original family (Baù)