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TIL… My great grandpa who’s been missing for 60 years was just potentially found in a 56 Chevy at the bottom of a lake I swam in as a kid.

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J11eQ TIL The FDR Memorial in Washington DC was designed to be accessible to people with physical impairments. However, vision-impaired visitors complained that the braille was illegible due to improper dot spacing, and in some cases was placed eight feet off the ground.
0w51M TIL that 26 of the 50 states of the U.S. are named after Native American tribes.
VnK8 TIL the only coup in the history of the United States took place in North Carolina in 1898. The plotters kidnapped the mayor of Wilmington and installed their own mayor.
eBy4 TIL when Pope John XXIII was once asked, “How many people work in the Vatican?” John replied, “About half.”
grrN9 TIL Arthur Blake competed for the Boston Athletic Association and it was after a 1000 yard race he said in jest "I'm too good for Boston, I ought to go over and run the Marathon, at Athens, in the Olympic Games". This led to him being noticed by a stockbroker, and sending Arthur to the 1896 Olympics