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TIL the first commercial brand of root beer, was originally to be called “Root Tea,” but was instead named “Root Beer,” to make the beverage attractive to Pennsylvanian coal miners.

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RaG6 TIL That during and shortly after the JFK assassination a woman was seen and photographed holding a camera and stayed after most witnesses fled the seen. She has never been identified.Nor has the footage she may have took been found.
XQYE TIL that healthy adult dingoes take responsibility to keep old and weak dingoes away from food and water so that they quickly die.
LAO9 TIL the FBI recruited a Mafia enforcer to use “illegal interrogation techniques” on KKK members to find the bodies of three missing civil rights workers. It worked.
oR7dr TIL the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry in 2014 sold less than 400 copies
e665 TIL for upon their death, survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona during Pearl Harbor may have their ashes placed within the ship, among their fallen comrades.