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TIL that Croatia had one colonial territory in India
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TIL In 1980 after a simple miscalculation, a drilling company accidentally punctured the roof of a salt mine on Lake Peigneur, draining 2.5 million gallons in less than 3 hours. The whirlpool was so strong it sucked barges to the bottom and reversed the Gulf of Mexico.
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TIL about the No Gun Ri massacre, which took place on the 26th July 1950, where US Forces killed a large number of South Korean Civilians. One GI, Norman Tinkler, was later quoted by the Associated Press as having said, “We just annihilated them.”
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TIL about Mounts of Piety, a non-profit precursor to pawn shops that offered reasonably priced loans to the poor as an alternative to usurious loans. Mexico's Nacional Monte de Piedad still operates to this day.
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TIL that in 2010, a spanish woman claimed ownership of the sun and tried to charge everyone who used it a fee.
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TIL: The world champion US Women's Soccer team lost 5-2 to a 13 and 14 year-old boy's team