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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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epBaE TIL while in Harvard University, Dale Maple was removed from the German Club for singing the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" and was dismissed from ROTC for praising dictatorship. During WW2, he helped German POWs to escape, was sentenced to hang and was commuted to 10 years
aD7o TIL: The old Spaniard who’s fighter lost in Django Unchained, starred in Django[1966]. That’s why he says “I know” when told by Jamie Foxx “The D is silent”
PYmwV TIL Scientists believe that the egg came first.The first chicken egg was laid by a bird who wasn't a chicken.
ADVxo TIL Walt and Roy Disney made this film (in 1964) to help get financing to build a college called CalArts to be placed in Hollywood, California. Which later got built about an hour North in Valencia, California.
oRWWW TIL Henry VIII's doctors were too scared to tell him he was dying while he was on his deathbed because of the Treason Act forbidding anyone from speculating about the King's death. The Archbishop was the one who had to break the news.