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16BJ4 TIL that Abe Lincoln's son represented Robert E Lee's son in a Supreme Court Case to reclaim Arlington Cemetery as Lee Jr's personal home; he shortly thereafter sold it right back to the US Gov't. The wiki chain was Band of Brothers author Stephen Ambrose -> Historian Hesseltine -> Wash/Lee Uni
WLg9 TIL that Christopher Columbus correctly predicted an eclipse to trick the native inhabitants of Jamaica into giving him food and supplies…
XEdGP TIL .tv domain is associated with Tuvalu, a tiny country in the South Pacific, and that the income they receive from it composes around 1/12 of the country's total income.
eZ6g TIL When Turkey objected to the inclusion of Mount Ararat located on Turkish territory on Armenian’s soviet coat of arms Nikita Khrushchev replied “Why do you have a moon depicted on your flag? After all, the moon doesn’t belong to Turkey”
BrGgk TIL - "The Holodomor" Was A Man-Made Famine Created By Stalin That Killed Up To 7.5 Million Of His Own People. Soviet Authorities Banned Discussion Of The Disaster And Ordered Historians To Falsify Their Accounts Of It To Uphold Stalin's Legacy