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TIL that we have Labor Day as a result culminating from The Pullman Strike. During The Pullman Strike the US government sent the US military and federal marshalls to break it up, they subsequently opened fire on citizens and killed over 30 people.

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4kXga TIL about 20% of Australians are descendants of convicts.
Z8G9Q TIL In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain. This caused one of the worst environmental disasters in human history. Locust populations ballooned, swarming the country and causing famine.
9axB TIL of Forgetmenot whose superpower is that everyone forgets about him even machines. he also been one of the original members of the X-Men its just that they forget about him
Oo8VL TIL of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, coined by Michael Crichton after discussions with Nobel-Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, which defines the idea that, "I believe everything the media tells me except for anything for which I have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong."
9YXJp TIL during the 60’s at a Nevada test site, Billy Waugh and a small team successfully parachuted in nuclear bomb parts, assembled it, and had it ready to arm in 14 minutes. (This tactic would later be considered for use during Vietnam conflict.)