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TIL In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves

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x6bgD TIL that during the Jonestown Massacre, many of the 900 cult followers refused to drink or administer the poisoned Flavoure-Aid to their children. And so they were just killed. Either shot in the head or poisoned by being injected with the cyanide.
neVGP TIL that the "For Dummies" book series started with "DOS for Dummies" in 1991. The creator overheard someone in a bookshop ask if there was "a book about DOS for dummies like me". Since then the series has grown to about 2,500 titles with more than 200 million books in print
loQAr TIL Elton John owned an English soccer team and was really good at it - "in the space of seven years, the club had climbed from bottom place in the lowest division of The Football League to top position in the highest division"
KOaPB TIL The first tent erected at the South Pole by the Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen on its arrival on 14 December 1911 is still there, buried beneath 17 meters of snow.
GARG1 TIL In 1987, a Boeing 747 was hijacked by a lone attacker armed with dynamite from a gold mine. After 6 hours, the flight engineer hit the attacker over the head with a whiskey bottle. He was given a suspended sentence and then became a member of the House of Representatives of Fiji.