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kR9m TIL the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted 12-year-old leukemia survivor Declan McLean-Pauley’s wish to blow a bunch of shit up
7r9Y7 TIL the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa released the equivalent energy of 13,000 Hiroshima bombs, or enough to power the average US home for more than 20 million years.
woRP TIL when Sequoyah invented the Cherokee syllabary (making reading and writing in Cherokee possible) it became the only time in recorded history that a member of a non-literate people independently created an effective writing system.
9JdG TIL Sailor Moon in Japan had a lesbian couple, Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptume. In the English translation this is censored, stating they are cousins instead. Due to problematic dubbing flirting was left in, leading some viewers to infer their relationship as incestuous.
kJlGd Til: On July 4th, 1778 George Rogers clark, a colonel from Virginia, took Kaskaskia, Illinois, without firing a single shot.