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

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x7B5 TIL camels were brought to Canada in 1862 to haul gold; the disastrous experiment ended in only 1 year after the camels terrorized horses and ate miners’ clothes and soap
4XWPw TIL: About the Grays Harbor Lighthouse, in Westport, WA. At 107 feet tall, it's not the tallest but its light is powered by a 35 watt bulb that can be seen for 19 miles or 31km.
6nbw TIL a high-school student sued his school district after they suspended him for three days for giving an innuendo-laden speech at a school assembly. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
AEol TIL that Eugene Shoemaker, who co-discovered comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, died in a car crash on his way to see comet Hale-Bopp. Some of his ashes were taken to the moon in 1999, making him the only person to be buried on a celestial body outside Earth.
neaV7 TIL The Danish Navy accidentally fired an anti-ship missile at its mainland destroying several properties. They later called this the 'oops' missile.