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TIL Literal Bird Sh*t Was A Driving Factor In US Imperialism

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4kXlJ TIL that buttons and buttonholes switch sides depending on if they're for males or females. I'm 29.
9wx5B TIL in 1969, the illegitimate son of comedian Stepin Fetchit, who had met his father for the first time only two years before, went on a shooting rampage on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, injuring 16 and killing 5, including his wife and himself.
b9g4a TIL More Indians died in World War 2 war efforts than the Britons, Americans and French Combined
j6eGX TIL that the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes you free") above the entrance gate to the Auschwitz camp is no longer the original, which has been kept in a museum since it was stolen and found cut into pieces in 2009.
b6DgE TIL of Hassan Diab who was convicted of bombing a Paris Synagogue which killed four people and is currently teaching a class called "Social Justice in Action" at Carleton University in Canada