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TIL about the mass exodus of slaves to the Union Army during the American Civil War, which W.E.B. Du Bois theorized as a General Strike.

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bnL0 TIL: The big bang theory was first proposed by a catholic priest.
E1MoX TIL of the Pioneer Plaque, a pair of plaques sent on the Pioneer spacecrafts that included a naked man, a naked woman, and a diagram representing the origin of the spacecraft. The plaque was designed to transmit information to potential aliens who might intercept Pioneer 10 and 11.
KYbe6 TIL that O'Connell bridge in Dublin is the only bridge in Europe that's wider than it is long (by 5m)
x61PD TIL that during an NHL game between Toronto and Carolina in 2018, both of Carolina's goalies got injured so they had to put in a 42 year old maintenance worker from the rink in net. They won the game.
YppwB TIL when presented with nutrients arranged in the pattern of Japanese cities around Tokyo, brainless, single-celled slime molds construct networks of nutrient-channeling tubes that are strikingly similar to the layout of the Japanese rail system