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TIL For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression

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rRQN4 TIL about the Mirlo rescue. In 1918, an U-Boat attacked a British cargo ship off the NC coast. The ship blew up, spilling oil onto the ocean which caught on fire. The US Lifesaving Service sailed through the fire 4 times to rescue 42 of the 51 aboard.
Q5YM TIL that the term Gerrymandering comes from a literal Gerrymanderer - Elbridge Gerry, who drew the voting districts of Essex County, MA in such a way that a local paper compared it to a salamander, dubbing it the ‘Gerry-mander"
Rl7Q TIL that hours after the JFK Assassination, newly sworn in Lyndon Johnson was almost shot and killed by a Secret Service agent.
yXaV TIL that in WW2 an American pilot fell over 20,000 feet and survived by falling through the glass roof of a train station.