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TIL that only 1/3 of the people in America really supported the American Revolution in 1776

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Z8rwY TIL That the sign above the gates to Auschwitz-Birkenau, which reads 'Arbeit macht frei' (Work Sets You Free), was made by prisoners in the metalworking labor detail. The prisoners deliberately reversed the letter "B" as a camouflaged mark of disobedience.
GYbnE TIL JetBlue fully refunded a jilted bridesmaid after she revealed to the airline on Twitter that she was asked to relinquish her wedding duties and send back her bridesmaid jumpsuit over email because she couldn't attend the bachelorette party
m1wbY TIL the father of rocket science was a self-educated grade school math teacher
XE09Q TIL that at the incredibly popular race track the "Las Vegas Motor Speedway" every once in a while the local sheriffs department will come down to drag race anyone who simply has a license, a street legal car, and is interested, in an effort to take illegal drag/street racing off the public roads.
eXr6 TIL the average child in the UK spends less time outdoors than prison inmates