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TIL when the United States Marines occupied Haiti for 19 years, one of the first actions was to take control of Haiti's economy and finances and rewrite its Constitution to give foreigners land-owning rights.

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yVvmJ TIL A Minnesota burglar named Nicholas Wig was caught after he logged into his own Facebook account on a computer in the house he was robbing. The homeowner returned to find his account still logged in.
VBOBZ TIL: That Alfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer who won two gold medals in swimming at the 1896 Athens Olympics. He went on to compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics 28 years later winning a silver medal for architecture, making him one of only two Olympians ever to have won medals in both sport and art.
YL6P TIL after Scarface was given an X rating three times by the MPAA, director Brian De Palma held a panel of real narcotics experts who said that the film was a realistic portrayal of the drug underworld that should be seen by everyone. Because of this, the MPAA allowed the third cut to be released.
b9l9Z TIL in 1981, Mr. Rogers had a segment on his TV series where a disabled boy named Jeffrey Erlanger described to the audience what it was like to be handicapped and in a wheelchair. 18 years later, Jeff surprised Mr. Rogers with an appearance during his induction into the Television Hall Of Fame.
mJAO TIL that four American soldiers defected to North Korea during the Korean War, hoping for a better life than the one that waited for them back in the US. One of these men is still alive.