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TIL that Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was killed, is not original, but a 100% re-creation on the original site.

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x4bB TIL that baked beans started with a bean native to the Americas exported to France/Italy in the 1500’s, were brought back to America with European colonization, then exported to the UK as an “American delicacy” in the late 1800’s, and are now reimported to the US as “UK Baked Beans”
79jP TIL That during WW2 more people died manufacturing the German V2 rocket than were killed by the actual use of the weapon.
JYALB TIL The Vietnam government executes corporate executives convicted of financial crimes or corporate malfeasance.
jyEE TIL: The adult human has two to nine pounds of bacteria in his or her body.