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l7ZON TIL Daniel O'Connell, the 19th-century Irish Nationalist leader, was fiercely opposed to slavery. Although his organization was largely funded by donations from the United States, he refused to take any money donated by southern slaveholders.
wLVN6 TIL russian luitenant colonel Stanislav Petrov went down in history as the man who single-handedly saved the world from all-out nuclear war when he called out an false allarm when the soviet missile detection system claimed six US nuclear missiles have been launched.
7E9P TIL Leonardo Da Vinci was almost put to death for sodomy. When no witnesses came forward, his case was dismissed.
VMrN0 TIL - The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 135,000 people
8eQoa TIL about the Starkweather murders and Carli Fugate’s struggle to be pardoned. The 12th Victim Official Trailer | Documentary Series | SHOWTIME