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TIL Rober E Lee inherited his Father-in-law's plantation and instead of emancipating the enslaved people as instructed by the will; decided to run the plantation himself splitting families and being so cruel it led to a slave revolt.

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5YNbR TIL of viruses that attack bacteria called ‘bacteriophages'. The term phage originates from Greek phagein, which translates as ‘to eat'. A single phage injects its genome into a bacterial cell, switching the cells' program in its favor. The host cell eventually dies, releasing about 100 new phages.
X1eQ TIL that Marilyn Monroe may have had up to 12 abortions
QJLKa TIL That when a domestic cow and an American Bison mate the offspring is called a "Beefalo"
JY5J1 TIL that after L. Ron Hubbard's death in 1986, the Church of Scientology officially claimed that he voluntarily abandoned his physical body after it became an impediment to his work, and that he had left Earth to do scientific research on another planet—having "learned how to do it without a body".
56ar TIL That Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, and the United States are the only three countries not to mandate paid time off for new parents.