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j6dVR TIL that during the Mexican-American War, General Gideon Pillow ordered the dirt excavated from a ditch to be piled on the wrong side.
kJoYd TIL Ancient Human populations in India and Europe were taller than the tallest modern countries
XEXK6 TIL That Benjamin Rush, A Founding Father and Physician Believed That Blackness Was "A Disease" And Was "Curable". He Co-Authored This Paper, Based On A Black Man Who Turned White. (He had Vitiligo)