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TIL That Texas Revolution was partly to keep slavery alive and well in Texas as slavery had been outlawed by Mexico. Slave's captured during the Battle of the Alamo were freed by the Mexican Army.

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dDWlB TIL that A 14 year old british boy battling depression created fake online personas to persuade his best friend to attempt his murder. Miraculously surviving the attack, he entered the UK's records as the first person ever charged with inciting their own murder.
ADAww TIL of Wilmer McLean, who’s house in Manassas, Virginia was in the 1st battle of Bull Run. He moved to Appomattox, Virginia, but 4 years later Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant in his living room. His properties had one of the first, and last encounters of the Civil War.
N7WoM TIL an experiment showed that baby mice can inherit certain fears from their parents via DNA
7rPaX TIL that the Vatican has nominated St. Isidore of Seville to be the patron saint of the Internet, a seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who tried to record everything ever known.
rlre TIL that one theory on why we are ticklish is that it serves as a mechanism for developing combat skills. Most often practiced from parent to child, tickling activates vulnerable areas on the body that develop a defensive reaction while producing laughter that encourages the ‘attacker’ to continue.