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TIL about a Confederate cemetery in Oxford Mississippi. Currently there is only one large marker for the cemetery, there use to be individual headstones for each plot but years ago the groundskeeper moved them to cut the lawn and forgot where they belonged.

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QJQba TIL in 1993, the experts of Manchester academy of fine arts liked a painting and included it in the exhibition.Later, they found out that its creator,Carly Johnson, was four years old.
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