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TIL Memorial Day Was First Celebrated In Boalsburg PA In 1864, Two Years Before Waterloo First Celebrated Memorial's Day

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WByX TIL that booze under 10% alcohol will hydrate you if you were stuck in the desert, over 10% will take fluids away
4XBYo TIL that Robespierre abolished slavery in French colonies in 1794, only for Napoleon to re-introduce slavery in 1802
pYDmO TIL in 1961 an 11-yr-old girl survived drifting on a dinghy without food or water for roughly 82 hours before being rescued. The captain of her boat had sunk it in an attempt to kill those on board that he hadn't already killed. His wife, her parents & two siblings died. He committed suicide later.
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yQYeJ TIL that Akira Kurosawa was unable to get funding after a series of flops, and only returned to filmmaking after attempted suicide when the Soviet Union enlisted him to make a film set in Russia