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TIL about the Suffragette bombing and arson campaign

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6EOZZ TIL that the unknown soldier for Vietnam was identified and later recovered and returned to his family after 26 years.
b6Bv4 TIL that the Italian royal family was banished from the country in 1946 and were not allowed to return until 2002.
7bOb TIL of Johnathan R Davis who, in a well documented incident, single-handedly killed 11 armed bandits who ambushed him in 1854. He killed 7 while dual-wielding revolvers, and then finished the remaining 4 with a Bowie knife. He sustained only 2 slight flesh wounds.
xVVgb TIL of Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, a baseball pitcher and Hall of Famer who, in 1886, became the first person to be captured on camera giving the middle finger
o0v8 TIL that during the 1990’s Joe Rogan paid $10,000 per month to have a T1 internet connection installed in his house in order to play Quake without dealing with lag