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TIL that the Haitian Revolution was the only successful slave uprising

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jN4Ep TIL Korolev crater on Mars is 50 miles wide, contains 530 cubic miles of water ice (as much as the Great Bear Lake in northern Canada), and in the centre of the crater the ice is more than a mile thick
0d95A TIL the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission estimates there are around 150,000 licenses for radioactive sources and around 1 source per day is either lost or stolen.
gwj8 TIL: Saudi Arabia beheaded a man for ‘witchcraft and sorcery’ in 2012
Jk01 TIL the container ship Tokio Express lost nearly 5 million pieces of lego due to a massive wave in 1997. Coincidently, most pieces have an oceanic theme and continue to wash ashore to this day.
LQvam TIL that the Vatican Church recognised the Capybara, technically a rodent, as a fish which led to it being eaten during the meat free Lent season.