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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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v1DnL TIL that David Werder sat on a flagpole for over a year to protest gas prices in 1982-1984
Jv6k TIL that the Vatican says that followers of Pope Francis on twitter will have less time in Purgatory.
001M TIL Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, “admitted to defrauding citizens by organizing mad gold-digging expeditions and also to claiming to possess dark or ‘necromantic’ power” 4 years before discovering “The Book of Mormon”
P1aL TIL that in 1969, American Indians occupied Alcatraz Island, acting on an old law that granted them the right to reclaim abandoned federal land. They occupied Alcatraz for nearly two years.
R7Zd4 TIL Red Harden, the builder of the custom Jaguar E-Type hearse seen in Harold and Maude, did not see the movie until 2016, 45 years after its debut.