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TIL that in an attempt to resist the reintroduction slavery by napoleon. In Guadeloupe, after finding out that he wont win the battle he and hundreds of his followers blew themselves up by igniting there gunpowder stores, killing many French troops in the process.
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TIL that a University of Clemson student conducted an experiment in identifying ways to help turtles successfully cross roads. He placed a fake turtle in a road to observe driver behavior and disturbingly found that six percent of people deliberately went out of their way to hit the turtle.
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TIL: Jesse Owens, winner of four golds in the ‘36 Olympics said, “Hitler didn’t snub me – it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”
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TIL 1989 Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke gave a speech allowing Chinese People to come to Australia following the Tiananmen Square Massacre, without telling the Australian government.
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TIL The initial 1972 meeting between President Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong was planned for fifteen minutes, but it lasted about an hour. Mao seemed to only want to talk philosophic questions, although Nixon brought up questions like the India-Pakistan crisis, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea