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TIL in the 1860’s, a slave from South Carolina stole a ship from the Confederacy and delivered it to the Union. He was later gifted the ship to command during the Civil War. After the war was over, he bought the house he was a slave in and became a US Congressman.

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J1P8v TIL Karoly Takacs was a top pistol shooter in the Hungarian Army who missed the 1936 Olympics due to his rank. in 1938 he destroyed his right hand due to an accident, he started shooting left-handed and won Gold in the 1948 & 1952 Olympics.
0d4L1 TIL About Montgomery Meigs, Quartermaster General of the Army: He was one of the principal architects of Arlington National Cemetery; the choice of its location, on Robert E. Lee's family estate, Arlington House, was partly designed as a gesture to humiliate Lee for siding with the Confederacy.
GAPQg TIL a Spite House is a building constructed to irritate neighbors and potential land owners. Because long-term occupation is not the primary purpose of these houses, they frequently sport strange and impractical structures.
nWB87 TIL that, from July 2017 to February 2024, at least 108 people have been killed since the Brightline company began its high-speed train service in Florida. However, after National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigations, none of the deaths were found to be the fault of Brightline.
dbK8 TIL a former Reagan administration official brought a young Bulgarian teenager over to the states in an effort to improve his education. That teenager, fluent in four languages, disappeared after high school, adopted the identity of a slain 3-year old, and became a government agent in Oregon.