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TIL the United States Army has an Esports team

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wo0eo TIL that coffee fueled the Enlightenment by providing a safe alternative to contaminated water and alcohol
69bPZ TIL that voodoo dolls have never been prominent in the voodoo religion; this is an invention of early/mid 20th century American media. The Louisiana Voodoo High Priest has condemned the representation.
l7eBG TIL the first American-born ace of World War II was Arthur T. Chin. An aviator in the Chinese Air Force during the second Sino-Japanese War, he became the first American-born ace in that war. Chin was born in Portland, Oregon.
xVLnk TIL in 1989 96 people were killed at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England after they were crushed due to overcrowding. Although match attendees and hooliganism were first cited as the cause, a 2016 inquiry found the police to be at fault due to their mismanagement of the crowd.
oB8kA TIL United Airlines had assured a blind woman that they would help her off the plane but only after the other passengers had gotten off, before forgetting about her and locking the plane up with her in it after everybody else had left.