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p8g5N TIL the Gendarmerie of Haiti, the collaborationist police-force raised by the USA during its occupation of Haiti in the early 1900s, sent a rifle team of indigenous gendarmes to the 1924 Olympics. The team won the nation's first-ever Olympic medal, a bronze, in the team free rifle event.
5jWR TIL that the British Museum is older than the United States
Brw8d TIL that Major-General Ulysses S. Grant ordered the expulsion of Jews from three states during the American Civil War - General Order No. 11 (1862)
gr8pW TIL about the Sulfanilamide Elixir Tragedy: In 1937, a pharmaceutical company in the US marketed a new antibiotic, sulfanilamide, in a sweet-tasting liquid form. The elixir contained a toxic chemical solvent, diethylene glycol, which caused the deaths of over 100 people, many of whom were children.
78MoX TIL That the most all callers in to the namesake show on Frasier (Original) were all well-known uncredited stars.