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TIL In 1988 a Finnish artist made a video in which he killed a cat with an axe and then masturbated over the carcass. This award-winning artisan is now a professor of arts in Helsinki

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6Oa7 TIL of Lafayette, a Frenchman from the revolutionary war who later toasted “to the perpetual union of the united states. it has always served us in times of storm. one day it will save the world”. American troops sent to France in world war 1 visited the grave and said “Lafayette, we are here”
mpGM TIL Herodotus wrote about fuzzy, dog sized ants living in India which dug up gold to build ant hills. For centuries, people assumed it was made up. In the 1990s, scientist discovered a fuzzy marmot living in India that digs up gold whenever it burrows.
4koOa TIL there was a deadlier martime disaster than the Titanic: the Sultana. Carrying 6 times the passengers than it was alotted, the Sultana sank on the Mississippi river killing over 1,100 Union Soldiers. The tragedy did not receive much attention as it was days after the assassination of Lincoln.
kOW0W TIL Chief Justice Fred Wilson, who presided the Brown v Board of Education trial initially, was holding the opinion that the Plessy v Ferguson verdict should stand. He died in September 1953 and replaced by Earl Warren. Warren made the Racial Segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
vAkR TIL During the 1872 election, presidential incumbent Ulysses S. Grant ran against a corpse. His opponent, Horace Greeley, died before the election was finalized. Grant won the election.