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TIL there was a planned military coup at the end of the US Revolutionary War

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apob TIL Nazi party member, John Rabe, saved 250,000 people from the Rape of Nanking.
0oDM TIL: Jean-Claude Van Damme’s epic Volvo split commercial was done in one shot… without practice.
KObyR TIL that the webcam was invented just because 3 people wanted to keep a check on coffee level without walking to their breakroom.
jrbv TIL there is a theory that suggests the years AD 614–911 did not occur and that in fact the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto III, directed chroniclers to fabricate historical records and figures, such as Charlemagne, for these years. If thought to be true, it would currently be AD 1716, not 2013.
574R TIL of a kingdom in the Niger Delta which held no military authority over its citizens whatsoever, believed all violence was an abomonation, and served as a safe haven for all refugees and slaves for a thousand years, all the way up untill 1911.