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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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l78r1 TIL The Assyrians had basic lens technology. One of their creations, the Nimrud lens, dates to 710 BCE, though its purpose is debated. Lenses could have been used to start fires, as decoration, or astronomy tools (with references to the snakes of saturn being the rings or mythology)
yVK4V TIL in 1964, ABC premiered "A Carol for Another Christmas," a made-for-TV movie written by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling as a modernization of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." The film is both a retelling of the classic tale and a call for cooperation between nations.
0dMWA TIL that there's a Detroit company called extreme kidnapping where people pay from 500 to 1500 to get tied up shocked by an actual stun gun and kidnapped just for fun
oBKBE TIL in 2004 a man had his head brutally smashed with an axe on his sleep. He woke up like normal and adrenaline kept him up as he did his routine. He used the sink,did dishes and made breakfast while bleeding out. He was locked out while picking the newspaper and died trying to find the spare key
1aJYr TIL of a Nuclear Weapons Accident that occurred on March 10, 1956. A B-47 Stratojet carrying two plutonium cores was lost over the Mediterranean. Despite an extensive search, the plane and it's cargo was not located and it's fate remains unknown today.