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TIL That Wagon trails from the Oregon Trail are still visible today

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VBAoD TIL about Leon Trotsky’s grandson who lived to survive Stalin regimes assassination attempts and ran a museum dedicated to his grandfather in Mexico
a8B1N TIL an estimated 1 of every 8 workers in the USA has at some point been employed by McDonald's
yVY18 TIL WW1 ended at 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. The last trench veteran of WW1, Harry Patch, died on July 25 2009, aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day
XEZor TIL that the abandoned town of Old Jefferson in Tennessee was evacuated and burned down in 1963, to make way for an artificial lake. But the water drained away into underground caves and the site of the town never flooded
p8a6p TIL the largest movement of physical wealth in history was during WW2, Operation Fish had 186,332 gold bars and more than 8 million ounces of gold coins sent to Canada from the UK with not even one crate or treasury bill going missing.