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TIL JP Morgan bailed out the US Government in 1895

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8eJMZ TIL that before becoming famous as a General in the Union Army, William T. Sherman was the first superintendent of Louisiana State Seminary, which went on to become Louisiana State University.
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worGo TIL that the extinct Ubykh language, spoken in the Caucasus until 1992, holds the record for most consonants: it had 83 but only two vowels
m1NNp TIL Donald Mastick accidentally tasted Plutonium and was banned from lab work. Despite this, he earned a physics PhD, started a highly successful interior landscape company, raised a family, and died of natural causes, all with few micrograms of Plutonium in his body.
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