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TIL 26,500 Tombstones lay at the bottom of the Delaware River

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gMyy9 TIL that when Fritz Duquesne's farm was torched and mum sent to a concentration camp as part of Lord Kitchener's policy in the Second Boer War, he vowed revenge. 15 years later, during WW1, he infiltrated Kitchener's warship and signalled a German submarine, which sank the boat, killing Kitchener
n9OY TIL the welfare state was originally a right-wing invention by arch-conservative Otto von Bismarck. Bismarck hated socialism, but he wasn’t an ideologue. He figured out that if you don’t provide a minimum safety net to workers, they will be persuaded by the socialists.
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LQovd TIL That the legendary Hip-hop album- Madvilliany, by MF DOOM and Madlib, was mostly created in a Brazilian hotel room with basic equipment