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TIL Karl Marx almost emigrated with his family to the Texas Hill Country in 1845 alongside a large number of German dissidents, freethinkers, and anti-slavery advocates who would come to strongly support the Union and the Republican Party.

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j64Za TIL that the assassin of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Beant Singh, was one of Indira's own bodyguards. He was previously removed for security reasons, but Indira ordered him reinstated as Beant was her personal favorite bodyguard.
mx5vv TIL in 1857 Utah, Mormon militia members ambushed a wagon train heading to California. They killed 120 people after offering safety from the siege, leaving only a few young children alive.
nWaMb TIL Back in 1993, Shaquille O’Neill would “punch you in the stomach and not give a heck”
X0woD TIL in his autobiographical account of taking on monopolies, Roosevelt recounted: “...we had come to the stage where for our people what was needed was a real democracy; and of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of a plutocracy.”
Q8Mp TIL Al Capone’s brother was a distinguished prohibition agent and acted as bodyguard to a US president.