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TIL the US military uses dolphins to find and identify underwater mines because they are better at it than humans.

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0gxj TIL: In the ‘30s the Smithsonian recorded Confederate Civil War veterans reenacting the the rebel yell battle cry. This is the only recording of actual veterans doing the yell.
kkKB TIL: According to the study of Epigenetics, what your grandparents ate for lunch decades before you were even conceived may have altered the genetic material that makes you who you are today.
0MJN TIL St. Patrick converted thousands in Northern Ireland to Christianity and used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to Irish Pagans.
VBM7k TIL that the Shunganunga boulder, a 23-ton red quartzite rock, was moved by glaciers from the Dakotas to Kansas hundreds of thousands of years ago; the boulder is sacred to the Kanza tribe (expelled from the state named after them) and Shunganunga translates to "Big Red Rock" in their language.
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