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TIL that despite a large British advantage in numbers and experience, Americans defeated the British at New Orleans in 2 hours with a loss of 65 sailors, the British lost 2000.

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X05AX TIL that the Gold Rush stimulated economies around the world. Farmers in Chile, Australia, and Hawaii found a huge new market for their food; British manufactured goods were in high demand; clothing and even prefabricated houses arrived from China.
4OyN TIL in one of the earliest instances of investigative journalism (1872), a reporter with the New York Tribune had himself commited/sectioned in order to report on abuse in mental asylums. His work led to the release of twelve incorrectly diagnosed patients and a change in the “lunacy laws.”
7rVXM TIL that the decision to remove Alexander Hamilton from the ten-dollar bill was reversed due to the popularity of the musical, Hamilton.
16wYV TIL that one of the major causes of the downfall of the Papal States and the unification of Italy was the abduction of a Jewish boy by the Pope in 1858.
R5bE7 TIL when the directors of Harold and Kumar (2004) took their movie to film producers, the producers said "we really love this movie", but wanted to change the main characters from Korean and Indian to "a White guy and a Black dude"