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TIL that a group of striking coal workers in West Virginia had leftover WWI chemical bombs dropped on them by the US government during the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labor uprising in American history.

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8epMX TIL that Finnish NHL player Esa Tikkanen was known for his indecipherable speech called Tiki-Talk or Tikkanese. Wayne Gretzky once remarked, "He brings something special. I don't know what it is, but if you ask him, you couldn't understand his answer."
16ABV TIL that in the 16 years before the Berlin Wall was built, 3.5 million East Germans fled the country through West Berlin. In the 28 years after it was built, only 5,000 managed to escape.
WNEo TIL Truman Capote once autographed around a woman’s navel. Her drunk, jealous husband pulled out his penis and asked Capote if he could sign it. Capote looked at it and replied, “Well, I don’t know if I can autograph it, but perhaps I could initial it.”
vMvD TIL Iceland has such a small population that they have an anti-incest app so you don’t end up hooking up with a family member on a night out.
b9vDZ TIL the duck-billed platypus has a gene mix of birds, reptiles and mammals and genetically has 25 possible sexes.