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TIL: Battle of Blair Mountain: The largest labor uprising in America. A five day battle between 10,000 miners and 3,000 lawmen and strike breakers

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EgW0o TIL the typical Japanese dish "tempura" comes from Portugal. The name comes from Latin "tempora", meaning "times" or "time period", referring to fasting times when Cathloics avoided eating meat and ate fish or vegetables instead
1a5OD TIL there's a full-time position at the Tower of London called the "Ravenmaster" that is the caretaker for the flocks of Ravens that inhabit the grounds there
W7RjB TIL The last time gold medals were made from solid gold was at the summer Games staged in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912. Thereafter, the medals were cast in silver and coated in 6 g (0.2 oz) of gold.
vkGx TIL the United States almost adopted the Metric System in 1794. Frenchman Joseph Dombey was en route to America to present the prototypes of a Meter and a Kilogram to the US Congress but his ship got hit by a storm and he got stranded in the Carribean where he died in a British prison.
6ELD7 TIL in a 2016 UK National Lottery draw, 5 of the 6 winning numbers were multiples of 7. As many people consider 7 a lucky number and selected these numbers, the prize money for picking 5 winning numbers ended up less than the prize money for those that picked 3.