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TIL Over 2 BILLION people watched the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony

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9Y6MQ TIL that during Hurricane Sandy, one of the Sentinels that guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Sergeant Shane Vincent, volunteered to stand watch over the Tomb for a full 23-hours.
J1bYQ TIL that King Louis IX was captured and imprisoned for six weeks in Egypt in 1250 during the Seventh Crusade. He was ransomed for the equivalent of one-third of France’s GDP, while nearly all of his army was massacred. 20 years later, he died in Tunisia while on another crusade.
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