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TIL that in the Victorian era, many people took photos with their dead relatives

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eDyE TIL In WW2, when American GIs were stationed in Britain, they hated the racial equality in the UK, and would start fights with black British soldiers. Unable to abide the GIs’ racism, white British locals and soldiers would fight on the side of the blacks.
d81ZQ TIL: A 17th Century Indian religious poem (30 couplets long) when read forward recites the story of the God Rama and the same when read backwards recites the story of the God Krishna.
VMwN0 TIL aerospace engineer and author Judith Love Cohen (worked on the Hubble Space Telescope) had two well known sons. The first son, Neil Siegel, developed GPS receivers in mobile devices and the US Army's first unmanned air vehicle system. The second son is a rather famous actor... named Jack Black.
R7ZZ6 TIL that slime mold is an organism that is neither, plant, animal or fungi and can be both single celled and form into a multicellular mass. In it's multicelled form, it basically becomes a super computer that can solve complex problems.
1alP7 TIL that if you are 7 ft. tall or taller in the United States, there is a 17% you are currently playing in the NBA.