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TIL: That The Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim is the best selling single player (only) video game of all time at 60 million units sold.

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e0xYk TIL that Readjuster Party, led by two former Confederate officers in post-Civil-War Virginia, abolished the poll tax, abolished the public whipping post, funded public schools for African Americans, hired African Americans as teachers, and founded the historically black Virginia State University.
kE7E TIL that 27 million Soviet citizens died in WWII. By comparison, 1.3 million Americans have died as a result of war since 1775.
7yYZ TIL an American POW in Osaka, narrowly avoided an execution by uttering the words “He can kill me, but he will not kill my spirit, and my spirit will lodge inside him and haunt him for the rest of his life.”. The Japanese officer backed off.
NXv6J TIL that no US company can ever perfectly recreate the taste of Coca Cola as one of the ingredients in it is extract from the Coca leaf. Since cocaine is made from the plant only one company in the US can import it - Stepan’s Company. Their only customer is Coca Cola.
4noa TIL that the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, updated his Harvard University alumni listing to include his 8 life sentences as “awards” and his current occupation as “prisoner.”