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TIL: After suing Facebook for deleting his profile, Jason Crawford (from Georgia, USA) was awarded $52K USD.

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Bgrdk TIL Empress Leopoldina from the house of Habsburg was the first woman to become head of state in an independent country in the Americas. She was one of the masterminds behind Brazil independence and the yellow in the flag symbolizes her house of Habsburg. She was also behind German migrations there.
W7Oa8 TIL per a report released by the federation of American scientists, the United States government produces more classified information then unclassified.
EoM7 TIL In the early 1900s French gangsters used a weapon called an Apache Revolver that functioned as a revolver, a knife, and brass knuckles
QNnG9 TIL about the history of the Ho Chi Minh trail during Vietnam War
pYZGO TIL that the Tower of B*bel was built to avoid a second fl**d by humans who all spoke a single language. As a result, they were punished by being scattered and made to speak different languages, so they could no longer understand each other