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vE4x TIL The seal of the city of Atlanta features a phoenix because it is the only major American city that’s been completely destroyed by war. It was burnt to the ground in 1865.
6EM8Y Today I learned there was a West Virginia Woman, Sarah Brandon, who gave birth to 16 sons that were in the Civil War, 14 for the Union and 2 for the Confederacy.
4XOya TIL that WW1 could have ended hours earlier, but one man wanted to wait until "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month". ~11,000 men were wounded or killed waiting for the Armistice to take effect
JYPXV TIL that in 2012, a woman on vacation in Iceland joined a police search party to help find someone who was reported missing, The search went on for hours before she found out that the person they were looking for was herself.
Wk7d TIL If you shuffle a deck properly, it is extremely likely that the resulting deck has never been seen before in the history of cards.