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TIL a former slave ship captain wrote the song “Amazing Grace.”

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QOA6 TIL in 1846 during the Mexican-american war, a group formed called “St. Patrick’s Battalion” that consisted of Irish Catholics. They faced discrimination in the US, so they switched to fight for Mexico.
YrVB TIL that in WWII a three man group of American soldiers secured the surrender of an entire German Panzer Corps composed of 15,000 soldiers.
kg84 TIL that a 13-year old boy who fought back against a known bully (who was bigger and older) and accidentally killed him received 12 years in prison.
g0B9 TIL of Hans Münch, an SS physician who refused to assist in the murder of inmates at Auschwitz. He was the only member of the SS at Auschwitz acquitted entirely, mostly due to hundreds of inmates testifying in his favor.
e0bbg TIL that the mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas, Woodrow Wilson Mann, was the one who requested that President Eisenhower send in federal troops to enforce integration during the Little Rock Nine crisis.