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TIL that, in the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War, a group of West Virginia coal miners fought local and federal authorities at the Battle of Blair mountain in 1921 and were even bombed with gas and gunpowder.

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4kKDb TIL that The Toba eruption was a supervolcano eruption that occurred around 74,000 years ago leading to reducing human population to a very small population of between 1,000 and 10,000 breeding pairs ,all of today's humans are descended from this tiny surviving group.
QdVk TIL Rolex is owned by a foundation which is registered as a charity and therefore pays no corporate tax
4X6Go TIL in computing, half of a byte is called a nibble
kOYAm TIL that Georgia's state dog is any "Adoptable dog"
oY1o TIL fusing (B) white blood cells and cancer cells produces immortal antibody producing cells