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TIL that abolitionist John Brown’s attack on the Harper’s Ferry Armory was suppressed by Colonel Robert E. Lee.

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lBKG TIL a civilian jet airliner was shot down by a United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988 and killed 290 people including 66 children and 16 crew members.
Rbrl TIL that the world’s first heart transplant occurred today, 36 years ago, in Cape Town South Africa
J1NJv TIL New Jersey Gov. William Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's son from an extramarital affair, became the chief leader of the British Loyalists during the American Revolution. From his base in Manhattan, he organized military units to fight on the British side. In 1782, he went into exile in Britain.
VM0Z TIL there exists a centipede the size of your forearm that lives in caves, and catches bats in mid-flight.
p8eYQ TIL The International Jew, four-volume set of antisemitic booklets, was written by Henry Ford. He is the only American to be mentioned in Mein Kampf.