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TIL that November 9th is known as “Fateful Day” by German historians because so many important events happened on this date

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9YBwp TIL that the Woodingdean Water Well is the world's deepest hand-dug well, reaching an astonishing 390 metres (1,285 feet) and took four years to finish -- between 1858 to 1862.
d8Odr TIL about the 1961 Bobo doll experiment to study aggresion. Researchers physically abused an inflatable Clown doll in front of children, who then mimicked the behaviour, attacking Bobo in a similar fashion.
W7d9B TIL Sonora Carver; one of the first female horse divers, continued horse diving for 11 more years after being blinded from hitting the water with open eyes off of Atlantic City's Steel Pier. Horse diving was a stunt where a horse would be ridden off a 40-60 foot tower into a body of water.
41ko TIL in 1857 a group of Mormon militiamen in Utah dressed as Indians and slaughtered a group of 137 travelers in a wagon train crossing to California, killing all except the youngest children, who they spared and tried to raise as their own.
e0KvL TIL that GoBots were the first robot transforming toy of the 1980's, predating Transformers by a year.