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TIL To guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier you must be in superb condition, have a perfect military record, be 5'10"-6'4", a proportionate weight/build, memorize 7 pages of history, recited verbatim, learn grave locations of 300 vets. After several months, they’re tested on the cemetery and Tomb.

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70mP TIL a 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife’s remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was “… I want to go home”, and he is determined to make that happen.
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oRoLo TIL that the federal death sentence for treason in the United States has been used only twice. The first time was during the Taos Revolt of 1847. The second was during the Civil War, when William Bruce Mumford was executed for taking down the American Flag flying over the New Orleans Mint
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