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TIL the national speed limit was set at 55mph not for safety reasons, but to conserve fuel

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R7rL6 TIL that the very first Medal of Honor recipient, Pvt. Jacob Parrott, received the honor in 1863 after stealing a train just north of Atlanta and riding it north to the TN border. Along the way, they destroyed track switches and cut telegraph lines, severely limiting Confederate communications.
ZGgR TIL: The phrase “kill them all, let God sort them out” comes from a Crusader in 1209 who wiped out a town of cathar ‘heretics’. Couldn’t tell them apart from Catholics, so killed em all
0wPnR TIL of the Pomelo, one of the original citrus species from which the rest of cultivated citrus' have been hybridized, such as today's oranges and grapefruit, etc.
6EAx8 TIL of Robert Smalls, a slave during the Civil War who escaped by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, persuaded Lincoln to allow African-Americans in the army, and later became a US House Representative. One of his final actions as a leader was to stop a lynch mob from killing two black men.
Bm6L TIL there are more iphones sold globally then children born. At a rate of 4.6 per second