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TIL that Town Planning was an Olympic event
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TIL That on the 12th of September 1897 21 sikh solders held their own against 10000 enemy tribesmen at the battle of Saragarhi, killing 180 and buying enough time for the nearby British fort to prepare and suppress the insurrection. All 21 were given the Indian Order Of Merit.
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TIL that after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said to his wife, “This is what is going to happen to me also. I keep telling you, this is a sick society.”
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TIL Comanche Indians would torture captured settlers by cutting off their genitals, stuffing them in their mouths, sewing their lips together, then staking them over a nest of red ants until dead - Comanche women often orchestrated the torture.
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TIL that Studio Ghibli (Spirited Away, Totoro) was set to animate the Little Nemo movie, but left the project. This amazing test pilot still exists, though!
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TIL Jimmy Carter has severed his ties with the Southern Baptist Convention in protest of their treatment of women