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TIL of the Battle of Liberty Place in 1874. After a disputed election, the White League attempted to overthrow the government of Louisiana. The insurgency was put down with the help of former Confederate general James Longstreet leading a unit of African-American militia.

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R5oB7 TIL about San Miguel de Gualdape, a short-lived Spanish colony founded in 1526 somewhere in modern South Carolina or Georgia. The location had the first enslaved Africans in the modern United States, and also the first slave revolt. The fates of the Africans is lost to history.
ANJrB TIL that Aruba 🇦🇼, a small Dutch Caribbean island of 110k people, is one of the most diverse islands of the Caribbean. Being home to over 130 nationalities and 1/3 of it's population being foreign born. 75% of Arubans are of mixed European, Native and African descent.
8ajGX TIL that a clean room used in chip manufacturing is thousands of times cleaner than a operating room. Chip manufacturing clean rooms have 10 particles per cubic meter while ORs allow 10,000 particles per cubic meter.
N0yM TIL Nestlé has a sordid history including price fixing, deliberately misleading advertisements, melamine and e coli poisoning, child slave labor use, and causing the death of countless third world children.
grP88 TIL Finland used a lot of resources and logistics during WW II to bring the fallen to their home parishes for a proper funeral, instead of using mass graves in the battlefield.