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TIL that Major-General Ulysses S. Grant ordered the expulsion of Jews from three states during the American Civil War - General Order No. 11 (1862)

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kOwWe TIL: The Beatles song Blackbird was written in the civil rights era directly to encourage black girls as they integrated Little Rock schools. In Britain a bird is slang for girl. Interview with McCartney himself clearly stating this is attached. 16:34 in the video.
mx7PR TIL while fighting in WWII, Max Spencer Adler was shot out of the sky and imprisoned by the Nazi’s. After surviving and returning home, he would go on to create the store we now know as Spencer’s (Gifts).
698lw TIL that Thomas Paine became a deputy in the French parliament and voted against executing King Louis XVI
n7JG TIL It’s possible to listen to records that no longer exist by extracting audio from pictures of them
nXo7 TIL that part of the Manhattan Project involved injecting patients with plutonium to see what would happen