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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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rK6y TIL Farming in South Africa if you are white is the most dangerous profession in the world with a murder rate of 99 per 100,000! This is over three times the South African national rate of 31.9/100,000, and nearly six times the rates of Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and Chad.
k9Lg TIL that Stephen King has made large charitable donations without announcing them because he was “raised firmly to believe that if you give away money and you make a big deal of it so that everybody sees it, that’s hubris. (…) you’re not supposed to make a big deal about it.”
j5ka TIL that in 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a maximum income of $25,000, equivalent to roughly $350,000 today.
loXG TIL Bill Clinton was the only President to leave office with an Approval Rating that was higher than when he took office.
E1Edo TIL that author, Barbara Follet, who published her first book at 12, vanished under strange circumstances. Her disappearance eerily resembles the last paragraph in her final book.