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TIL Blackbeard was from North Carolina.

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VMpEZ TIL peeling Scotch Tape in a vacuum releases enough X-rays to produce an image of finger bones on X-ray film
wLl4W TIL During the Civil War the Union Army made a parody of the Confederate's de facto anthem "Dixie"
nMoG TIL The Kenyan Masai tribe donated 14 cows to the US following the 9/11 attacks. The cattle - regarded as sacred, were the highest expression of regard and sympathy.
dlMZ TIL rogue crime-lab scientist Annie Dookhan compromised as many as 40,000 cases with her mishandling of evidence and perjurious testimony; she received a 3-5 year jail sentence.
oR9A TIL that a 15 year old girl with no vagina became pregnant after swallowing her boyfriend’s sperm. Her former boyfriend then stabbed her in the abdomen and the sperm travelled from her punctured stomach into her uterus, fertilising an egg.