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TIL that Josh Morgan (wide reciever for the Washington Redskins) survived the Virginia Tech shooting while a student there, and his mother survived both the 2001 pentagon terrorist attacks and yesterday’s DC navy yard shootings while working at or near both locations.

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9wvl7 TIL the term 'pitch black' refers to pitch, a sticky black substance that is obtained from the distillation of wood tar or petroleum.
yVQ5M TIL that there is a large piece of a civil war cannon in the attic of 9 East Battery, Charleston, USA. It landed there when retreating confederates blew up a cannon and it was too heavy to remove.
aRXJ TIL that in November of 1987, a pirate television broadcast hijacked two Chicago TV stations (WTTW/WGN) featuring a man dressed as ‘Max Headroom’ who was being spanked with a fly swatter. The people responsible have never been identified.
PY48V TIL four American presidents were neither Democrat or Republican but "Whig", a third political party that collapsed around 1855.
YparB TIL that pricetags are a recent concept invented by the Quakers who believed it was morally wrong to charge different prices to different customers for the same product