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TIL that LMFAO are an uncle and nephew duo

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0wGeR TIL in 1917, 1,300 miners went on strike in Bisbee, AZ over unsafe working conditions, low pay, and long hours. The mining company hired 2,000 men and loaded the strikers at gunpoint into cattle cars for a 16 hour trip through the desert without food or water and left them in New Mexico.
l7PrN Today I Learned that Billard balls used to explode often because they were made of celluloid.
RA48 TIL that, in 1955, Pennsylvania set a goal of having a state park within 25 miles of every citizen.
gr8KA TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers. His wife committed committed suicide.
Br41d TIL that when a massive earthquake struck Nepal in April 2015, Nepal’s longest-serving “living goddess” Dhana Kumari was forced to break seclusion and walk the streets for the first time in her life.