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TIL that one of the earliest Memorial Day commemorations was organized by a group of freed slaves in Charleston, South Carolina less than a month after the Confederacy surrendered in 1865

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QNN0E TIL that the finish military had a swastika as their logo up to 2020 when pressure made them reconsider the logo
aADA TIL a 15 year old boy named Jack Andraka made a program that can detect pancreatic cancer, a general procedure that usually costs about $2,000-$5,000 for just $3.
n989 TIL that Indonesia found that a dead Manta Ray is worth $40-$500 dollars, while Manta Ray tourism can bring in $1,000,000+ during a single Ray’s life. Indonesia now has 2.2 million square miles of protected ocean for the Manta Ray.
mx0xv TIL about the Bodo skull: a 600,000 year old early human fossil from Ethiopia. Cut marks on the skull indicate the individual was scalped with stone tools almost immediately after death.
P1gow TIL that the Boston Tea Party was not called that until the early 1820s. Before that it was referred to as The Destruction of the Tea.