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TIL In Missouri in the early 1860s, a ‘snowflake’ was a person who was opposed to the abolition of slavery.

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KpMB TIL Genghis Khan killed so many people he cleaned about 700 million tons of Carbon from the atmosphere. It may be the first case of man made global cooling.
v1Qej TIL that before 1762, there was no influential prescribed English grammar rules, but a desire within the middle class to teach their children to speak like the upperclass prompted Bishop Robert Lowth to publish the prescriptive grammar book which has been the foundation of current English grammar.
D1wDD TIL of the 1925 Shakee Massacre, where over a hundred peaceful Chinese protesters were gunned down in Guangzhou, China. The perpetrators were not punished and refused to even apologize.
lMlr TIL five year-old children who drink 4+ soda servings per day are 100% more aggressive on the whole than their peers who don’t drink any, according to a Columbia University study.
8WNL TIL that China has banned live streams of people eating bananas in a “seductive” fashion.