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TIL Nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to succeed outright as violent insurgencies

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6NlQ TIL Al-Jahiz, an Arabic scholar, wrote about evolution and natural selection 1,000 years before Charles Darwin
D11KJ TIL the worst maritime disaster in US history was Steamboat Sultana, where 1192 souls perished after its boilers exploded just outside Memphis. Not very many people heard about it since news coverage focused on the killing of John Wilkes Booth the previous day.
6EWEm TIL during The Great Purge, citizens couldn't sleep at night because they were terrified of a knock on the door, meaning they would be arrested and sent to a labor camp. Even Stalin's own mother fainted after she heard a knock on the door, although Stalin had only sent bodyguards to protect her.
QwXE TIL that India’s Mars mission cost less than the movie “Gravity.”
KOyKw TIL One of the reasons why parachutes are not provided to passengers in a commercial airplane is that an airplane usually flies so high that people jumping out of the airplane would pass out due to lack of breathable oxygen so high up there.