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TIL The Only Voice Recording From A Person Born In The 18th Century Was Prussian General Helmuth von Moltke, The Elder

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D1bAe TIL After losing her husband and four children to yellow fever, and her job to the great Chicago fire, Mary "Mother" Jones became a labor organizer. She organized a march of working children from Philadelphia to New York, and her speeches provoked workers to organize during the Coal Wars.
oBGQ7 TIL during the Vietnam war, the CIA created "ghost tapes" designed to frighten Vietcong solders. the tapes were of fallen Vietnamese souls wandering the jungle telling of their suffering, and to go back to their loved ones. These were played loudly at night from helicopters.
6EZPY TIL that the painter James McNeil Whistler was expelled from West Point by Robert E Lee
N7W68 TIL that even though Canada did not participate in the Vietnam war, some Canadians volunteered to fight alongside the US. 134 of them lost their lives in the war.
5V6eB TIL about “zombie stars,” in which a white dwarf explodes as a weak Type Iax supernova but somehow survives the blast, leaving behind a dim, battered remnant that keeps orbiting through the galaxy.