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TIL - Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson was killed by friendly fire during the Civil War.

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woj8o TIL of Ida & Isidor Straus, a couple aboard the Titanic the night it sank. Isidor had a chance to join his wife on a life boat, but stayed behind to give his place away to a child. Ida, refusing to leave her husband behind, too left the life boat. They died together arm in arm when the ship sank.
GAgj1 TIL side saddle horseback riding was started ‘as a way for women to ride horses, while protecting their virginity and modesty’
wgpW TIL In 1982, after 7 people died after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol, CEO James E. Burke ordered a universal recall, costing $100 million. The incident was found to have been carried out after being manufactured.
8w7a TIL The Japanese government pays compensations for Japanese A-bomb survivors but ignores to compensate for Korean slave workers who also survived the bomb
9m9D TIL: Ottoman Pirates undertook a series of Slave Raids in Iceland in 1627. They captured an estimated 400–900 Icelandic prisoners to sell into slavery. This event is known in Iceland as Tyrkjaránið – the ‘Turkish Raid’