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16QXO TIL: During WW1, there was an American volunteer vigilante group known as "The Knights of Liberty" which targeted Germans, labor activists, "slackers", and anyone seen as disloyal to America. They would either tar and feather, lynch, or beat them. They claimed to have over 2 million members in 1918.
Y7Xb7 TIL Vertus Hardiman, who at age 5 in 1928 was subject to radiation experiments disguised as a new ringworm treatment. He lived 80 years suffering necrosis of his skull, hidden under hats and wigs.
OGgkR TIL that Vlad the Impaler had a brother called Radu the Handsome.
Qda6 TIL: White wine can be made from red grapes. Red wine is just made by leaving the skin on them.
QN7G6 TIL that the longest democratically elected communist government in history was the 34 year Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front rule in the Indian state of West Bengal