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TIL That the survivors of the USS Arizona can have their ashes placed inside the ship which lies in Pearl Harbor to be reunited with the 1,177 who died Dec 7, 1941.

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9Y8x7 TIL Pill bugs, AKA (Roly polies, Potato bugs, etc), are not insects, but are closely related to shrimp and other crustaceans. They also have gills.
gME58 TIL Iran's Queen Tadj ol-Molouk played an important part in the abolition of the veil in Iran during the reign of her husband. She was the first Iranian Queen to show herself in public when she attended a gradation ceremony in modern clothes with her two daughters, without veils
67V7 TIL: There is a skyscraper in New York City with no windows
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