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TIL The Man That Invented Kwanzaa Went to Prison For “Felonious Assault and False Imprisonment” for Torturing Several Women

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J1aEl Til about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) if you have ever been through or witnessed a terrible event. A terrible event, such as a natural disaster, serious accident, asexual or physical harm, fight or war, or other situations that place a person's life in risk, may end up in PTSD.
OGDoe TIL of Bobby Sands. A member of the IRA, Sands was elected to Parliament in 1981 while serving a 14 year prison sentence after bombing a furniture company. Before serving in Parliament, however, he starved to death due to a hunger strike he organized.
166L7 TIL about Bald Knobbers, a group of vigilantes in the Ozark mountains that formed in response to lawlessness in the area from the Civil War
KvNR TIL Nokia was founded in 1865
Gap5 TIL that Mae Questel, the voice of Olive Oyl in the original Popeye cartoon, voiced Popeye himself in a few shorts where his voice actor, Jack Mercer, was unavailable