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TIL that in 1869, President U.S. Grant tried to annex the Dominican Republic and grant it statehood in order to protect African-Americans from the KKK

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5NJP TIL that for filming of 28 Days Later, rather than film in a studio or use CGI, shots of abandoned streets of London were filmed just after dawn on location.
8epvV TIL that Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the Phonautograph, the earliest known device for recording sound and patented it on March 4th 1857, a full 20 years before Thomas Edison created the Phonograph.
XWNE TIL that in 1772, Alexander Hamilton survived a hurricane in the Caribbean and wrote a letter about his ordeal. His vivid descriptions moved people to start a fund to move him to New York to get an education. He went on to become a Founding Father and greatly shaped our early nation.
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