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TIL that many Confederate soldiers immigrated to Brazil after the American Civil War, establishing a community of "Confederados" that still exists today, five generations later.

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v1RVj TIL that the rare genetic condition myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy can give babies and toddlers the ability to perform amazing feats of strength. One such case was Liam Hoekstra, who could perform upside-down situps, and could lift himself into an Iron Cross position across his mother's hands.
QNWjL TIL A close friend of the president Ronald Reagan and an heir to the Bloomingdale’s department store fortune, also known as “father of the credit card”, Alfred Bloomingdale was in a BDSM relationship with his mistress Vicki Morgan, who later was beaten to death with a baseball bat.
YZXG TIL the first proposal to tunnel under the English Channel was put forward by a Frenchman in 1802. It would have had illumination from oil lamps, horse-drawn coaches, and an artificial island mid-Channel for changing horses
j6Vwp TIL about Tirthankara who, according to Jainist tradition. conquered the saṃsāra, the cycle of death and rebirth, whose teachings form the basis for the Jain canons. In Jain tradition, tirthankara pave the way for others: their grace is available to all living beings, regardless of religion.
LwQ9 TIL some of the first German Soldiers captured at Normandy on D-Day were actually Korean. They had been pressed into service by the Japanese, captured by the Soviets, then captured by the Germans, then captured by the Americans.