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TIL Chlorine was originally put into pools to stop the spread of Polio.

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a8vQZ TIL that Lesotho, African enclave, has an area around the same size as Belgium
O7OL TIL that Puritans didn’t leave Britain to avoid persecution, they left because of the laws preventing them from persecuting those they thought were not practicing religion properly.
yVxLJ TIL the Melbourne gold rush drew more people to Victoria than the California gold rush did to the US.
Goo7 TIL a USMC General and Medal of Honor recipient wrote a bestselling book describing how wars exist to enrich corporations. In 1935.
epe16 TIL Harry R. Truman (not the former president) died in the lodge that he built, where he met his wife, with his 16 cats in the aftermath of the Mt. St. Helen's eruption on May 18, 1980