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TIL that there were many "Southern Unionists" during the US Civil War. 40% of US Military Officers from Virginia fought for the Union and approximately 100,000 Southern Unionists served in the Union Army, with units of White Troops raised from every Southern state except South Carolina.

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8nDb TIL Roald Dahl’s daughter died of measles and because of a recent resurgence in the infection due to a willful lack of vaccinations, he penned a letter to parents urging them to vaccinate their children.
0dpo5 TIL in 1990, a panel of the windscreen on British Airways Flight 5390 fell out at 17,000ft, causing the cockpit to decompress & its captain to be sucked halfway out of the aircraft. He survived.
X0J9X TIL: three different cardiac surgeons (Norwood, Glenn, Fontan) independently came up with surgeries to fix babies’ congenital heart defects. Nowadays the surgeries are done one after another as part of one mega treatment (“staged” reconstruction)
EgdKp TIL that God killed a man because he refused to impregnate his dead brother's wife.
dLpQ TIL on June 29, 1995, a department store in Seoul, Korea collapsed, killing 500 people. During construction, the owner insisted on adding an unauthorized 6th floor with a swimming pool. When his engineers protested, they were fired.