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TIL All new FBI agents are required to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum

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4lZ5 TIL - A Man Died After His Parasitic Worm Got Cancer
JYZ8V TIL the young, unknown Afghan girl from the 1985 cover of National Geographic was located in 2002 and her identify was confirmed using iris recognition. She remembered being photographed in the mid-80s but had never seen the image of herself as a child before it was shown to her in January 2002.
01y5 TIL while vacationing on a beach in Thailand, a 10 year old girl recognized the signs of a tsunami after learning about them in geology class two weeks prior. Hundreds of beach-goers were evacuated minutes before the devastating tsunami from the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake arrived.
KOxBR TIL that the daily rum ration given to sailors in the Royal Navy was only stopped in 1970.
D1nDp TIL: There actually was a baseball player name "Crash Davis". So Director Rob Shelton needed his permission to use the name in Bull Durham. The only thing Davis asked was: "Do I get the girl in the end?" Shelton said yes and Davis gives his okay.