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TIL: The shortest war in history was between The British Empire and the Sultan of Zanzibar. It lasted 38 minutes. The British suffered no casualties, while Zanzibar suffered 500. Afterwards, slavery was abolished in Zanzibar

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o1dA TIL That C.S Lewis, Aldous Huxley and John F. Kennedy died on the same day: 22nd November 1963
JYVol TIL: Éamon De Valera, leader of the Irish Free State negotiated the return of three "Treaty" Ports, conceded to Britain in 1921, under the oral agreement that if war were to come, Britain would have access to them. When war came, De Valera denied Britain access to the Ports under Irish neutrality
NZ7E TIL that because of ‘the wagon-wheel effect,’ under improper lighting, fast-spinning machinery can look like it’s standing still, which is very dangerous
VWb8 TIL: Sabrina Erdely (the lady who wrote the Rolling Stone UVA Rape hoax) wrote a story for Rolling Stone in 2011 about a boy who was raped by 2 priests and a school teacher. All 3 were sent to jail. Turns out the story was also false.
8j68 TIL of Carlos DeLuna, who was wrongly convicted of murder and executed for killing a gas station attendant. The police made no effort to investigate another man named Carlos who looked nearly identical to DeLuna. Evidence of his innocence would have taken less than a day of investigation to uncover