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TIL that in response to a rebellion in the province of Uva in 1818, the British government killed every male 18 or older.

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VMvJm TIL the only full copy of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series (featuring Bill Mazeroski's famous walk-off home run) is from a recording on Bing Crosby's TV. Crosby co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates and believed he was a jinx, so he hired a company to record the game on his TV while he listened from Paris.
oRkKR TIL that Hyacinth Thrash wasn't the only survivor of the Jonestown Massacre. The other was 79 year old Grover Cleveland Davis who being hard of hearing slept through the death assembly. He died a year later.
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