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TIL I learned that the first law suit to legalize homosexual marriages in the United States was brought by a Christian Church.

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5VVyr TIL of Wenceslao Moguel, a Mexican soldier fighting for Pancho Villa who was captured and sentenced to death without a trial in 1915. He was shot 9 times in the body and once in the head but managed to survive and live (disfigured) until 1976.
n5YW TIL on September 11, 1857, a wagon train heading through Utah toward California was attacked by a Mormon Militia. The militia had disguised themselves as Indians, but once it was suspected that their cover was blown, the Mormons feigned a truce and slaughtered 120 men, women, and children.
MeV4K TIL Tinder, Match.com, OKCupid, and PoF are owned by the same company.
GYKPG TIL about Frisland, a "phantom/imaginary" island off the coast of Greenland which, despite being nonexistent, appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through the 1660s.
woPmM TIL WW2 sunken ships are being "grave robbed" due to their incredibly valuable steel