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TIL there's a member of the Waffen-SS buried in Arlington National Cemetery

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9YAVD TIL Pencils produced in the 1990s with the anti-drug slogan "Too Cool to Do Drugs" were recalled because, when sharpened, they read "Do Drugs"
j6yPQ TIL Finches and canaries were used in the coal mine industry to detect carbon monoxide. This practice ceased as of 1986
9Y5lX TIL our star is called the Sun but doesn't have an actual name. *Not even Sol.
vDQK TIL that can openers were invented about 80 years after canned food
ZvGR TIL that although the All-Seeing Eye was a real Freemasonry symbol, it has zero connection to the Illuminati except in modern conspiracy theory