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TIL Harriet Tubman was give a $20 a month pension after the civil war, this is why she will be on the redesigned $20 bill

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OG9rg TIL of the Beneš decrees, laws which allow Slovakia to steal property from its ethnic Hungarians. The post-WWII era laws came from the former Czechoslovakia, where it was used to take property and citizenship away from ethnic Germans and Hungarians, and subject them to forced labor.
mny TIL that the fruit fly has the longest sperm cell, 2.3 inches long.
4dAJ TIL that in 1942, the HMS Porcupine was split in half by a German torpedo. The two sides were salvaged and renamed the HMS Pork and the HMS Pine.
99dm TIL Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were turf wars in Scotland in 1980 between rival criminal Organisations selling drugs and stolen goods in ice cream vans.
nyeY TIL a man made a homemade tank out of a bulldozer that was immune to armor piercing ammo, and took revenge on a town, causing over $7 million in damage before he took his own life