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TIL there are myths of an advanced civilization of red haired people who disappeared after the last ice age (5,000+ years ago)

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LQVKp TIL during WWI Momčilo Gavrić at the age of 8 lost his entire family to a heinous war crime, he then enlisted in a nearby artillery unit and identified the location of the enemy soldiers that killed his family, then participated in the bombardment that wiped out that entire enemy unit
E6j7 TIL that D.W. Griffiths, who made the racist pro-KKK film “The Birth of a Nation”, responded to his critics with subsequent films that preached social justice and the first ever movie about an interracial love story.
oRPRW TIL since Canada’s founding in 1867, fewer than 50 people have been killed in earthquakes on the land now contained within the country’s borders
woLLo TIL that JP Morgan suffered from rosacea and consequently, rhinopehyma in his old age, which made his nose huge, deformed, and red.
8aZo8 TIL that on two separate occasions (first in 1869 and again in 1912) the sitting president of Haiti was killed when a stockpile of ammunition placed in the National Palace ignited, destroying the structure in a massive explosion.