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TIL newsboys across New York went on strike against Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper in 1899

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6XWX TIL, after winning one of the most famous dogfights of WWII, a Japanese fighter pilot managed to fly over 4 hours back to base despite being blind and paralyzed down the entire left side of his body from enemy fire; he endured and survived emergency surgery without anesthesia immediately afterward.
gLe4 TIL The Russian tried to dig a hole through the Earth’s crust in the 1970’s. They reached 40,318 feet deep before they stopped. It is still the deepest hole humans have ever dug.
wdxW TIL that in 192, the Roman emperor Commodus declared himself the new Romulus and “re-founded” Rome. He then renamed a bunch of things in his own honor, including the city itself and the names of the 12 months (which he changed to correspond with his 12 names)
rReRe TIL about Contranyms. Terms that, depending on context, can have opposite or contradictory meanings.
GwAQ TIL The area code of Brevard County, Florida is “321”. This is due to the county being the home of the Kennedy Space Center.