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TIL the Hatian Revolution is the only recorded successful slave revolt

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A6E4 TIL Wyoming cattle barons hired a private army to kill smallhold farmers and ranchers in 1892: The Johnson County War
OopLa TIL that per the 2012 census, West Virginia was the only US state to be a "net mortality society", where there were more deaths than births
x6JRD TIL that the inspiration for the 1965 book and 1967 film The Dirty Dozen was the 1st Demolition Section of the Regimental Headquarters Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, of the United States Army aka the Filthy Thirteen.
mKGv TIL There is an electric eel in a tennessee aquarium and the aquarium is hooked up to a computer that sends out a tweet from the electric eels twitter account whenever it discharges a high enough amount of electricity.
JDJV TIL the marvel universe doesn’t have teenage sidekicks because they are Stan Lee’s pet peeve