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TIL that in 1859, the United States and Great Britain nearly went to war over a pig being shot. The resulting "Pig War" led to a 13-year joint military occupation of San Juan Island

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AN1D7 TIL the 3.5% rule: 3.5% of a national population peacefully protesting on the streets at once will ALWAYS topple a Dictatorship or democratic government. Moreover peaceful movements succeed twice as often as violent ones. This surprised even the Harvard political scientist who discovered it.
exgJ TIL Froot Loops are actually all the same flavor, just different colors.
X5rD TIL We actually live about 80 milliseconds in the past because that’s how long it takes our brains to process information.
woKLM TIL that Copperheads sent mail containing venomous snakes to Washington D.C., when they declared for the Confederacy.
grgOy TIL that in 2019, American actor Charles Levin, aged 70, died after his car got stuck in unmaintained wilderness road in Oregon. After trying to free it, he left the car in search of help and fell to his death down a 30-foot (9 m) embankment. The body of his dog, Boo Bear, was found inside the car.