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TIL that in 2018, after a tanker truck fire shut down a freeway in Los Angeles, a taco truck opened up on the freeway

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6kQY TIL Mozart pirated a piece of music by writing it down from memory.
8RMP TIL France gives medals to citizens who have successfully raised several children with dignity.
D0gv TIL when Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the all-black 54th Regiment during the American Civil War, died at Fort Wagner, he was stripped and buried with his men as an insult. His father, however, proclaimed that he was proud to know that his son rests with his brave and devoted soldiers.
WxbY TIL that scientists are working on a nuclear fusion rocket which could reach Mars in 30 days.
kPLW TIL in the early 1900s a transexual man (born as a woman) was able to pass for a man, enabling him to vote, marry two successive wives, adopt a daughter and successfully stand for political office in NYC.