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TIL Laura Branigan wasn't the original singer of 'Self Control'

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JYRev TIL that President Truman's decision to relieve Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1951 may have been decisive in preventing the outbreak of a global nuclear conflict.
MNe0 TIL in 2010 2/3rds of all gun deaths in the U.S. were from suicide.
yQanp TIL of the battle of Cable Street in 1936. Where people of London's East End, who stood up and stopped Edward Moseley's Black shirts from parading through London's largely Jewish East end. It lead to the public order act banning political uniforms
kJJJE TIL that Ray Liotta was not in fact Italian--he had been adopted as an infant by an Italian man and his wife, but when he met his birth mother, in his 40s, he discovered he was actually of Scottish origin.
6e8Z TIL: Ben Franklin attempted to abolish slavery in 1790