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TIL In August 1854, armed with pistols, swords and clubs hundreds of mutually antagonistic Chinese miners from the same region — the Pearl River Delta — fought a pitched battle on the outskirts of California town, Weaverville

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gr7Zb TIL a doctor named Chester Southam injected his patients with cancer without their consent to see how their bodies would react.
egWn TIL of Steven Jay Russell, who impersonated a prison guard to simply walk out of prison. Upon recapture Russell lowered and paid his bail by pretending to be a judge, escaped his next capture by impersonating a doctor, and did so AGAIN by faking his death, eventually landing him a 144yr sentence.
lEx5 TIL sailors had crossed the Equator by 425BC and reported they’d seen the Sun switch sides in the heavens. Writers like Herodotus thought they were making it up
e0Yb TIL that Vitamin E doesn’t help heal scars quicker. It actually causes dermatitis up to 33% of the time.
mPdE TIL that William Whipple freed his slaves when he signed the Declaration of Independance, because he believed that he could not fight for freedom and own slaves.