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TIL of Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche who was a Haitian engineer, nephew of the then President of Haiti and was the sole black man on the Titanic.

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GANkG TIL in 2011 a man in Egpyt named his daughter Facebook. He chose the name to "to express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth," who organized protests with social media, that began on that day, and led to the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, after 30 years in power.
Rox1 TIL the youngest United States citizen to receive a life sentence was Florida’s Lionel Tate, due to accidentally killing his neighbor while wrestling. At the time of the accident he was only 12 years old.
MQDa TIL that the first school massacre in the US took place in Pennsylvania in 1764.
yVvP8 TIL of HAVOC: High Altitude Venus Operational Concept - which would include artificial floating islands on Venus at an altitude that provides better living conditions than the surface of Mars or Titan
8evZL TIL Braun introduced a butane powered curling iron in 1982