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TIL There was a decade long “war” in Harlan County, Kentucky, to unionize the coal mines. It resulted in many deaths, Several bombings, and three seperates instances of intervention from the National Guard.

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05ZA TIL that Foster the People’s ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ is under a radio ban on many stations after the Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting
PQ0J TIL in 1997 physicists at the University of Geneva sent photons seven miles in opposite directions and demonstrated that interfering with one provoked an instantaneous response in the other.
v15d8 TIL Listerine was initially used as an anti-septic and is named after Joseph Lister, the doctor who famously used the first anti-septics in the medical field. It has also been sold as floor cleaner and as a cure for Gonorrhea
4Mpb TIL that due to time dilation one could travel thousands of light years in a human lifespan without exceeding the speed of light
xVrK1 TIL that due to the loose definition of religion, people have been stating on the census that their religion is “Jedi” since 2001, with the 2011 census having 177,000 submissions.