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TIL I learned that a cornerstone of the Robert E. Lee Memorial on Monument Avenue in Richmond included a time capsule containing, among other seemingly innocuous items, a picture of Lincoln lying in his coffin.

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N7mKE TIL about the Incroyables and Merveilleuses: Aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution who created a macabre and decadent subculture and "greeted one another with violent movements of the head as if in decapitation"
neZrG TIL the Hogwarts Express train in Harry Potter ACTUALLY exists in real life
oYrE TIL that North Korea captured a U.S. ship, the U.S.S. Pueblo, in 1968. North Korea maintains the ship as a tourist attraction and propaganda symbol to this day.
Me4B7 TIL stained glass originated to help illiterate people learn about the Bible
4lD6 TIL that Tul Bahadur Pun was a Gurkha who won the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest award for Valor in combat in WWII, and was denied a visa to live there because he ‘failed to demonstrate strong ties to the UK.’