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TIL that the lettering on soldiers’ graves at the American Cemetery in Normandy is highlighted with sand from the D-Day landing beaches.

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GME1 TIL Cuexcomate, near Puebla, Mexico, was thought to be the world’s smallest volcano at just 43ft tall, but was later found to be an empty cone of an extinct geyser. The Pueblans threw bodies of suicide victims into it & believed that if you lived around it, you were ‘under the rule of the devil.’
v1lYr TIL Anchorites took their religious devotion to extreme levels, vowing to remain walled into a cell for the rest of their lives. This mostly happened to the Middle Ages, but also in modern times, some chose the life of an anchorite.
aw50o TIL President Benjamin Harrison's fathers corpse was stolen from its grave. The body was eventually found by his brother at the Ohio medical college hidden in a chute
1aKgP TIL father's get depressed with pregnancy. More of realization... Pregnancy weights heavily on the father. Makes sense and if I am feeling the weight and mood, cannot fathom what she feels.
BrAYL TIL: GDP (PPP) per capita, the United States is the 15th richest country in the world