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TIL That Memorial Day is meant to honor those who died, not those who served and are still alive.

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womPY TIL: Ruth Wilson played her real-life grandmother in the BBC drama Mrs Wilson. Alison Wilson was the third of four wives of former MI6 officer Alexander Wilson. After his death in 1963, Alison discovered another wife of her husband's. Alison died in 2005 without knowing he had had two further wives.
vJQL TIL Israel Keyes, serial killer, would travel via plane from Alaska to the the continental U.S. to bury murder kits. He would return years later to retrieve them and kill at random. He had no victim profile
4k60N TIL two different comic strips named “Dennis the Menace” both debuted on the same day: March 12, 1951. They were created completely independently of each other, and neither creator knew of the other’s existence
VMwr0 TIL of "Steel Manning," the opposite of a straw man. It's a technique where you attempt to explain your opponent's position as sincerely and honestly as possible. The idea is that by building trust, your opponent will be more willing to listen to your side of the argument.
Gln1 TIL there is a huge military training complex in California that consists of 11 fake towns, real iraqi civilians, oh and it allows spectators.