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TIL Robert E. Lee not only considered slavery a moral & political evil, but his wife and daughter set up an illegal school for slaves at their Arlington plantation.

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1MDO TIL an 1880’s guy’s GF committed suicide. Her brother, enraged, shot the man in the face & then committed suicide. However, the bullet only grazed his face & hit a tree. 20 years later the man dynamited the tree which sent the bullet flying into his head, finally killing him.
OnX4 TIL that Nosebleed, a movie (starring Jackie Chan) about a window washer at the World Trade Centre who stops a terrorist attack, had to be cancelled when the attacks happened in the real world.
abEL TIL that the FBI learned two of its informants were planning to murder a rival gangster. The FBI didn’t intervene, and the man was murdered. The FBI then stayed silent when four innocent men were convicted of the crime. By the time the truth was revealed, two of the four men had died in prison.
5V7Mp TIL - the Kamasutra English translation only talks about sex and the male perspective. but it's a philosophical book about relationships and love. only 20% of the book is about sex. it was selectively translated to suit "filthy paganism" narrative of the British.
d8YNB TIL Air Sports has an International Governing Body- Fédération Aéronautique Internationale