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TIL One Gallon of Oil Can Contaminate One Million Gallons of Fresh Water

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E18RP TIL about the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, a small group that broke into an FBI field office and stole documents that revealed the FBI’s spying on and infiltration of left-wing organizations across the US.
KYDME TIL that Turkey did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1926.
4XY7N TIL an indigenous people, the Mapuche, successfully repelled the Spanish colonizing force, costing the most Spanish lives of any conflict in the New World. The conflict is considered one of the longest wars in history
rRxY1 TIL Until late 19th Century wife selling auctions were held in England. Only the wealthiest could afford divorcing while others preferred just selling. It was also the backdrop for Thomas Hardy's 1886 novel 'The Mayor Of Casterbridge."
R7kla TIL in 1989 murderer Michael Godwin had his sentence reduced to life imprisonment after five years awaiting the electric chair but was electrocuted accidentally while sitting naked on a steel toilet seat in his cell. While trying to fix his television set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.