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TIL at Gettysburg’s 50th reunion in 1913, a Union and a Confederate soldier stood where their regiments had fought and buried a hatchet.

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pQdp TIL that in 2013, someone in Chicago placed a $600 million trade 2 milliseconds after the Fed publicly announced they wouldn’t slow bond purchases. The markets skyrocketed and the trader made lots of money. There was one problem though. It would have taken 7 milliseconds for light to get to Chicago.
1aG7V TIL that German prisoners in Canada were treated so nicely some of them returned to Canada after the war and became Canadian citizens.
ZbG TIL: That in 1991 Spacewatch discovered an artificial body near earth that is now listed on the NASA Astrophysics data system as a possible alien probe that was observed in the vicinity of our planet. It’s orbit will bring it back to the earth in 2016.
gDp8 TIL John Wayne was such a vocal anti-communist that Joseph Stalin contemplated having him assassinated.
Me5OV TIL that we don't actually know how general anesthetics work, or how they are able to induce unconsciousness without shutting down other body or brain functions