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TIL Henry Rollins and his friend Joe Cole were held up at gunpoint. Henry escaped but Joe was murdered. Rollins later said he kept a plastic container full of soil soaked with Cole's blood. Rollins said, "I dug up all the earth where his head fell ... I say good morning to him every day"

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waLo TIL not only did Flint, MI keep quiet about their toxic lead pipes leeching into the water but also the deadly Legionnaires’ disease that quickly spread after putting in different pipes
Br0LW TIL Kazakh author Rollan Seisenbayev wrote a novel about the human-engineered collapse of the Aral Sea, first published in in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Aral's shrinkage left seaside villages and beached shipping vessels far from the shoreline, destroying the fisheries
xVkJo TIL that the american flag "code" prohibits using the flag "for any advertising purpose" and also states that the flag "should not be embroidered, printed, or otherwise impressed on such articles as cushions, handkerchiefs, napkins, boxes, or anything intended to be discarded after temporary use".
1e0X TIL that blind workers manufacture 72,000 dress uniforms for the Army every month and that other companies employing blind workers supply materiel to other branches thoughout the military
wonE1 TIL Captain Bligh of the HMS Bounty later supported small farmers against the British military as Governor of New South Wales, and was overthrown in Australia's only military coup in history.