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TIL the Hatian Revolution is the only recorded successful slave revolt

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VMov4 TIL that in 2002, 339 dead bodies were found on the property of a crematorium in Georgia after the owner started leaving them around the crematorium, in storage sheds, inside vaults and boxes, and outdoors instead of cremating them.
7QX7 TIL That in May of 2011, the KKK showed up at a funeral the Westboro Baptist Church was protesting. The KKK protested against the WBC, saying, “It’s the soldier that fought and died and gave them that right to free speech.”
pkwO TIL when de Gaulle withdrew France from NATO and ordered all US troops out, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him for clarification, “Does your order include the bodies of American soldiers in France’s cemeteries?”
epBaE TIL while in Harvard University, Dale Maple was removed from the German Club for singing the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" and was dismissed from ROTC for praising dictatorship. During WW2, he helped German POWs to escape, was sentenced to hang and was commuted to 10 years
R7Ar1 TIL that Javier Bardem's performance as Anton Chigurh in 'No Country for Old Men' was named the 'Most Realistic Depiction of a Psychopath' by an independent group of psychologists in the 'Journal of Forensic Sciences'.