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TIL the oldest surviving Union Civil War Veteran lived to see the end of the Korean War

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E1JW TIL before the Nazi armies invaded Paris, the Louvre was emptied and its contents were secretly distributed among wealthy French citizens who hid them in their houses around the country.
QJ0Lk TIL that Niccolò Paganini was so talented at violin that people believed he had sold his soul to the devil. This idea was believed so intently that after Paganini died in 1840, priests refused to bury his body near a Church.
WkXQN TIL the large anime genre known as "Magical Girl" was originally inspired by the 1964 American fantasy sitcom "Bewitched"
oBw9o TIL Bigfoot is an Endangered Species in some States.
NVp8 TIL there was a project that challenged people to make a “Earth Sandwich” by placing pieces of bread in antipodal fashion on the earth (completely opposite of each other on the planet) For the first one, a baguette was placed in Spain, and another in New Zealand.