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TIL Actress Lucy Liu Claims To Have Had Sex With A Ghost.
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TIL that Hugh Thomson, the man who during the Vietnam War had landed a helicopter in the line of fire to confront and stop American troops who had by that point killed close to 500 unarmed civilians in the My Lai Massacre, was labeled a traitor by Congress and ordered not to speak about the event.
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TIL There is a population of Polish Haitians descended from Napoleonic soldiers who deserted to join the Haitians after learning they were fighting for their freedom against slavery.
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TIL Britain bought the freedom of all the slaves under its Empire at a cost of 40% of the treasury income which wasn't paid back till 2015 to ensure the freedom of slaves. 5% of GDP at the time which is aorund 100 Billion pounds today)
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TIL That actress Gates McFadden who played Dr. Beverly Crusher on "Star Trek: TNG" had been an employee of The Jim Henson Company as a Muppeteer and choreographed the classic movie Labyrinth.
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TIL the last US Civil War widow died in 2008.