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TIL that Queen Victoria was the shortest of all British monarchs with height of only 1.52 m

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m05Y TIL 92 years ago today started the largest uprising in U.S. history since the Civil War, when over 10,000 armed coal miners attempted to take down lawmakers in an attempt to unionize West Virginian mine workers. The U.S. Army intervened, and the workers lost.
xXG7 TIL that in the 1700s, the Russian Empire had a black African major-general, governor and nobleman, who had come from Africa as a gift for Peter the Great, and who was also the great-grandfather of Russian author Pushkin.
W7pKN TIL that Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language, had a brother named Paul.
W7r5Y TIL the biggest espionage leak in US Navy history involved a spy ring of four people: leader John A. Walker, his son, his brother, & a friend. The US Navy wasn't even aware of Walker's network, which existed from 1967-1985, until his ex-wife revealed it to them after their daughter convinced her to.
QGBp TIL the rules to Monopoly clearly state that if a player lands on a property and doesn’t buy it, it immediately goes up for auction to the highest bidder.