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TIL that US prisoners pick cotton

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0d9Q5 TIL of George Spencer Millet, who died running away from 6 girls who were trying to give him kisses on his 15th birthday. He tripped and fell on an ink eraser in his front pocket that stabbed his heart.
O0KR TIL: The Iraq war cost $2 trillion dollars and 134,000 Iraqi civilian lives.
mNLx TIL that a Japanese ship crashed on the Washington coast in 1833, its sailors were captured by Native Americans and enslaved before being freed by the intervention of the Hudson Bay Company
rNG8M TIL Geisha are in fact third grade entertainers. The prime grades are Tayu and Oiran.
aw40M TIL scientists have created a microparticle filled with Oxygen that can be injected into the bloodstream, enabling users to stay alive without breathing.