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TIL: There are still monuments in Colfax Louisiana memorializing 3 white men killed in the process of slaughtering 180 freed blacks in 1873.

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4Xxpg TIL of the Tea-Horse-Road. During Imperial-era, the Chinese noticed that Tibetans prized tea so much, they would trade high-quality horses for tea-bricks. As they needed warhorses to fight nomads, the Chinese set up a government office to sell tea for Tibetan horses, creating the Tea-Horse Road.
ylaa TIL, in Norway you can return your library book anywhere in the country regardless of where it was loaned.
Zp8wo TIL Squirrels have shut down the NASDAQ twice by chewing through power lines
gjmb TIL a World War One submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, England
VkXk TIL Welsh folklore says the corgi is the preferred mount of fairy warriors, and that the breed’s markings were left on its coat by fairy harnesses and saddles.