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TIL of the Ocoee Massacre, on election day 1920 over 50 to 60 African Americans were killed when one African American man attempted to vote.

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4VEw TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
PWWV TIL “head over heels” was originally “heels over head,” which makes a lot more literal sense
KOnWE TIL California has oil rigs hidden in fake buildings in plain sight
7G0O TIL: In a circus, “The Stars and Stripes Forever” would be played by the circus band to alert performers to distress and emergencies.
BrM4r TIL Benjamin Franklin became a vocal advocate for inoculation after losing his oldest son to smallpox.