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TIL About Nikola Petkov, a Bulgarian revolutionary who helped establish Bulgaria as a republic, only to be executed by its government after a show trial when he tried to preserve democracy

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R7kpa TIL that Halsey Taylor came up with his improved fountain after his fellow employees started contracting dysentery from contaminated water. Taylor created a fountain where water came out in an arc allowing people to drink water from several inches away drastically reducing the spread of illness.
loDda TIL in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, orphanages would fill trains up with orphans. These trains would stop to have prospective parents evaluate the children for adoption.
epDYD TIL about an innocent man on death row
woZPJ TIL the name of Nottingham is Anglo-Saxon in origin. A Saxon chieftain named Snot ruled an area known as Snotingaham in Old English
9YyKB TIL that two pieces of the same type of metal in space can fuse together seamlessly if they come into contact with each other. Since there is literally nothing between them, the pieces don't "know" that they're separate. This is called Cold Welding.