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TIL July 28, 1915 the US invaded and occupied Haiti. They moved the financial reserves to the United States and then rewrote Haiti’s Constitution to give foreigners land-owning rights.

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wLjd8 TIL all iPhones since 6s have the capability to be used as a digital scale, but Apple bans scale apps because the concept of a scale app is “not appropriate”
xVDjD TIL In 2001, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) determined that English would, from then on, be the standardized language of air travel.
XmKX TIL - The word vegetarian, coined by the founders of the British Vegetarian Society in 1842, The original meaning of the word implies a balanced philosophical and moral sense of life, a lot more than just a diet of vegetables and fruits.
DMJD TIL that the entire student body of the University of Mississippi enlisted into the Confederate Army during the Civil War and suffered a 100% casualty rate.
mPOY TIL that if a person is connected to a high enough voltage and is cut, blood will spray from the wound rather than flow as normal.