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TIL the last US Civil War widow died in 2008.

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m15Zp TIL there is a very small (9-inch-tall) aluminum pyramid on the very top of the Washington Monument, because at the time it was completed, aluminum was considered more precious than gold or silver
VBRB8 TIL about Hague Invasion Act, passed in 2002 giving president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court".
JY8Jm TIL that the Oneida silverware company was started by a religious millennial group (1850) who practiced free love and would have menopausal women train the young males how to not ejaculate during sex as a method of abstinence.
Oo6V7 TIL in the 90s, Tina Turner left America and started living in Switzerland. She now is a Swiss citizen, lives permanently in a village in the Alps, and has stated: "I could not imagine a better place to live."
M7m4A TIL People are longing for true friends