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TIL that "V" is the only letter in English that is never silent,

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78rEp TIL about Army Col. Daniel Blackmon, who became the face of romance scams worldwide. Hundreds of accounts across the internet pretend to be this one guy every day.
b6pb7 TIL The United States built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945, averaging 1.5 ships a day. Liberty Ships were quick simple cheap cargo ships needed for the mass transport of supplies. The ships were lightly armed but the SS Stephen Hopkins manged to fight a cargo raider to mutual destruction.
VM94Q TIL: Eugene Debs was a 5 times socialist candidate for president, a union organizer, and orator. While at his sentence hearing for sedition, he said, "While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."