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TIL More Intelligent People Are More Likely to Binge Drink and Get Drunk

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4k8w6 TIL African-Americans enjoyed equal rights in the aftermath of the Civil War. It was a series of policies and Supreme Court decisions that disenfranchised the black community and stripped them gradually over the decades over their newfound freedoms. In 1873 there was even a Black Governor of LA.
BJpe TIL that 18 states do not allow the parental rights of rapists to be terminated. This is true even if the rapist is convicted.
YZkA TIL: Sun Tzu specifically advised against prolonged or pointless military campaigns and saying they would ultimately destroy a nation.
J1ZK4 TIL about the Rosenstraße Protest of 1943: a week-long nonviolent demonstration in Berlin by the non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men in mixed marriages, which coincided with the release of most of the roughly 1,800 men being held.
9jBG TIL that British spies used semen as invisible ink during WWI. The method was invented by Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming.