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TIL that in 2008, Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker survived a plane crash in which four of the six passengers were killed

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OGOWa TIL of the Watts Rebellion in 1965 that took place over 6 days due to civil rights abuses by LAPD, resulting in 34 deaths, over 1,000 injuries, nearly 4,000 arrests, and $40 million property damage.
R7JE8 TIL that China's 17th-century Tianqi Emperor suffered from a learning disаbility, and was illiterаte. However, he was an outstanding carpenter and craftsman, spending vast amounts of time on woodworking, and he instructed his servаnts to sell his creations undercоver, to see how much they were worth
neoY TIL the math used in the body switching episode of Futurama is a real theorem created by the Futurama writer Ken Keeler, who has a PHD in applied mathematics.
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kOp0g TIL that the last German Kaiser, Wilhelm II (born 1859), lived to see the rise of Hitler and the first two years of WW2, dying in 1941. When Hitler took Paris, he wrote a telegram, writing "Congratulations, you have won using my troops."