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TIL that on February 28, 1854 in a little white schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, roughly 30 antislavery men coined the term “Republican Party” to oppose the Kansas-Nebraska act.

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wGG8 TIL that in World War II, American soldier John R. Fox died when he deliberately called an artillery strike on himself. Realizing that German troops were overrunning his party’s position, the strike delayed the enemy long enough for other American units to organize a counter attack.
7v8b TIL of the Bald Knobbers, a vigilante group from Missouri who killed and arrested members of the KKK and the Confederacy while wearing hooded horned masks at night
wPBM TIL that Nintendo wanted Mario to ride Yoshi since the NES period, but it took six years for technology to make the concept possible.
X0EVr TIL that in 1914, 17 year old Princess Mary decided to distribute tin boxes containing small Christmas gifts to British Empire troops at the frontlines in WW1. After trying to finance it from her own allowance she set up a fund, appealed to the public and raised the equivalent of £17M today.
nWXMG TIL no one listens to the victims, especially when it's a child, until it's too late - and society makes the wrong people famous... A PARENTING ADVICE BLOGGER posted videos laughing over the fact she denied her children food TO PUNISH THEM and was AWARE 1 child was sexually abusing siblings?!