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TIL the Abraham Lincoln Battalion was a group of American fighters in the Spanish Civil War, including a vaudeville acrobat, a rabbi, and the first African-American ever to lead white troops into battle.

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XgDX TIL Pearl Jam sued Ticketmaster for creating a monopoly on ticket sales. Pearl Jam wanted to charge no more than $18.50 for tickets in ’94, with service fees of no more than $1.80. Ticketmaster balked, saying that it needed at least $2 in fees simply to cover its own costs.
aV7J TIL that Greek mythology isn’t a dead religion: People still worship the 12 Greek gods just as the Greeks did.
epDo5 TIL: Arlington National Cemetery is built on land initially owned by George Washington’s stepson and later owned by Robert E. Lee. The land was seized during the Civil War to serve as a burial site for the large amount of war casualties.
YZ5W TIL you can calculate the radius of the Earth using just a stopwatch.
W7E1N TIL that the UK used pit ponies (for coal mines) until 1994, then waited until 2011 to propose removing legislation governing pit ponies. And the last four working pit ponies were called Alan, Carl, Tom and Flax.