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TIL of the General Strike of 1842 when English workers went on strike, demanding their government act in their interest.

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4Xd7R TIL about the "Grievance Studies affair" where three academics produced bogus papers to expose how lax academic journals had become. One paper that was accepted and published by the Journal Affilia included long excerpts from Hitlers Mein Kampf where the word "Jew" was replaced with "White Man".
GAJk4 TIL that in Japan in 1980s, you could buy computer parts at cheap prices from shopping arcades and have them made into computers
x608g TIL when it gets cold enough, daddy long legs will huddle together in the thousands to create warmth.
1ZrP TIL a 4 year old girl was the only survivor of a horrific plane crash in Detroit in 1987 because her mother shielded her before impact.
wLpE TIL Mormons believe God has a wife.