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TIL about neutral Moresnet, an formerly independent village-nation between Germany and Belgium that continued to exist until 1920. At it's height, it housed 3500 citizens and the largest zinc-mine of Europe. The flag colors came from a mining company and it's citizens were considered stateless

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69Pm7 TIL of the 1862 Nueces Massacre in Texas, when 96 Confederate soldiers killed 37 German-Texan Unionists who were attempting to flee to Mexico, and slaughtering 9 Germans who were badly wounded in the fight, marking the end to overt German Unionist resistance in Texas for the remainder of the war.
b9XBa TIL a French footballer, Jean-Pierre Adams, has spent nearly 40 years in a coma he entered at age 34 following an anesthetist’s error. His wife has stayed by his side this whole time.
EgKNV TIL that in the 1970s, the manager of Japan's first KFC restaurant promoted fried chicken "party barrels" as a Christmas meal intended to replace the traditional American turkey dinner. Since then, eating KFC food as a Christmas meal has become a widely practiced custom in Japan.
w9OJ TIL there are six US states in which you can sue a person for having an affair with your spouse that ends your marriage.
GA5aQ TIL Writer Nikolai Gogol slowly died of self starvation after refusing all food. His doctors tried to cure him through a number of brutal methods such as force feeding him bouillon, pouring a bucket of hot water on his head, applying half a dozen leeches on his nose and a soap suppository