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TIL about the Rosewood massacre which was a racially motivated massacre of blacks and destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida.

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6EO78 TIL Sal Khan (founder of Khan Academy) was the lead singer of a death metal band
loR0a TIL: NASA calculated that Three Gorges Dam (Hubei) affected earth rotation. When the water level is at its maximum the dam contains 39.3 km3 of water and this altered the Earth’s moment of inertia slowing it's rotation of 0.06 microseconds.
kOQnE TIL In the 1700's the Mysore Army was using rocket artillery. The weapon was for long distance and against masses of soldiers throughout the Anglo-Mysore Wars. The First Duke of Wellington personally experienced the weapons and the English would adapt them for fighting in the Napoleonic Wars.
J1ORB TIL "RE Engine", a game engine developed originally for Resident Evil 7, does not stand for "Resident Evil Engine" but actually stands for "REach for the moon Engine."
grMBW TIL that there are crocodiles in the Himalayas