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TIL That 10 years after Britain no longer made vaccinations mandatory, there was an outbreak that resulted in a number of teenagers contracting diseases.

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vP17x TIL the suffragette bombing and arson campaign of 1912-1914 caused at least five deaths
7BOM TIL that the royal navy also has a 2nd Sea Lord, and that there used to be a total of 5 Sea Lords at a time, explaining why the commander of the royal navy is the 1st Sea Lord rather than simply THE Sea Lord.
8eeBa TIL that San Diego County is home to 18 Native American tribal reservations, the most of any county in the United States.
GAJ1j TIL that in 1923, a jockey named Frank Hayes won a horse race at Belmont Park in New York despite dying mid-race. He suffered a heart attack but stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the finish line first. It was the only race he ever won, and the horse was named "Sweet Kiss." After the incid
RwK4 TIL of Mary Fields, a 6’, 200-pound former slave who became the second woman and the first African-American to work for the US Postal Service in Montana. She began to work for the USPS at the age of 60 after hitching a team of six horses faster than any cowboy and never missed work in 10 years.