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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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GYLE TIL that after Hurricane Katrina, Cuba and Venezuela offered more than $5 million in disaster aid to the US. The US rejected the aid.
K5OQ TIL Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park, threatened to pull a Dave Chappelle by showing Comedy Central’s head of network a plane ticket to Africa because one of their episodes were censored against their will
QAk TIL there is a rave that is so big it is it’s own country…
GY8DE TIL about the wind phone (Kaze no Denwa), a telephone booth in Ōtsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, where visitors can hold one-way conversations with deceased loved ones as a way to process their grief.
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