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TIL the first Secession of the Plebes was a mass general strike, the first of many, by working class citizens against rulers they were displeased with

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v1D9L TIL of Maximilian 1, a 32 year old Austrian noble who was made Emperor of Mexico by France during the American Civil War.
b9mBp TIL Marijuana is legal in Washington DC as a “gift” only. You must purchase something else (like a sticker or T-shirt for example) and you choose your marijuana “gift” to receive.
W70n4 TIL: That cowboys and native Americans used to (and some still do) hunt raccoons in order to extract their penis bones in order to use them for toothpicks or as pipes for smoking
DQ0lD TIL Napalm, an incendiary mixture developed in 1942 at Harvard University, killed more Japanese in World War II than did the two atomic bomb blasts
epal5 TIL the richest man in the world in the 19th century was a merchant in Guangzhou, China