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TIL: Sweden made slavery illegal as early as 1337

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r69d TIL: While the FBI was searching for Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner they found 8 other bodies of missing black men killed by the Klan.
Y77er TIL about the Haber–Bosch process which allows for the creation of ammonia easily. Which is one of the key factors in the massively increased agriculture ability of the modern era as the ammonia is often used in fertiliser.
AA8B TIL bat droppings contain numerous infectious organisms, many of which if disseminated to the brain could make you literally “bat shit crazy”.
VMjQZ TIL Predjama Castle was under seige by the Austrian army for almost a year. The castle lasted so long because it had a secret tunnel in the back which brought food to the castle. The seige ended only when the ruler died on the latrine after getting hit by a cannonball.
Ayna TIL the word “strike” as in a labor stoppage borrows from the practice of 18th Century British sailors who would strike or lower their ship’s sails and not raise them again until they’d been paid.