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TIL Haiti is the first and only nation established as the result of a successful slave revolt.

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AbZx TIL Pirates wore eyepatches so when they went below deck where it was dark they could lift it up and immediately be able to see better
R8ja TIL that we are still in the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist.
wWRJ TIL that when Kiefer Sutherland found out about a “24” drinking game where you drink every time he says “damn it,” he decided to play along and started saying the phrase as many times as he could in an episode.
MeGEV TIL Louis Braille lost his sight at 5 years old after an accident trying to make holes in a piece of leather with an awl. 10 years later, he completed his system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired. Braille created his own raised-dot system by using an awl.
yV8Xe TIL about the Oceanic White Tip, the only shark to be known to deliberately prey upon humans (as opposed to biting them).