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TIL that a 1/16" strand of Zylon can support a ton without breaking

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0dXXL TIL of William Walker, an American physician, lawyer, journalist, mercenary, slavery supporter, and Southern folk hero from from Tennessee. Walker seized control of Nicaragua from 1856 to 1857, and convinced many U.S. Southerners of the desirability of creating a Confederate empire in Latin America.
690O8 TIL The American Iron Front owes its roots to a paramilitary organization formed in the 1930s in Germany to oppose the Nazis that was named simply the Iron Front (Eiserne Front).
R7QA6 TIL Legoland employees are referred to as “model citizens”
wykJ TIL in 1975, Alaska legalized recreational Marijuana use, and it’s still legal today
KOMvG TIL of a 2015 case of a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder who had some blind personalities. Even with her eyes open, EEG showed brain activity associated with sight was absent when a blind alter was in control. When a sighted alter assumed control, visual brain activity returned