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TIL Luddites were protesting working conditions and low pay, not technology

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Q5Ga TIL The 9/11 memorial also includes 6 names of victims from a bombing that occurred in 1993.
jNXpN TIL that one of the first American spies was a women during the Revolutionary War. To this day, her identity is not known and is referred to only as Agent 355.
a84Oo TIL that the phrase “it’s bedlam in here” comes from the psychiatrist hospital Bethlehem Royal Hospital which was founded in 1247 and is still running today. “Bedlam” came from slurring “Bethlehem.” It was known for excessive cruelty and brutality that wealthy people would visit for entertainment.
KOnnJ TIL of Stanley Hollis, the only British soldier to earn a Victoria cross medal for his actions on dday. He fought on multiple fronts during the war, killed hundreds of enemy troops, took out a tiger tank single-handed and on dday took out 2 pill boxes and captured multiple prisoners single-handed.
d7d9 TIL The day the Secret Service was created by Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1865, was also the day he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.