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TIL that nonviolent protests are more successful than violent ones.

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4XPW6 TIL Lake Tahoe at one time was named Lake Bigler in honor of the popular third governor of California. However, once it was revealed that Bigler was a Confederate sympathizer during the US Civil War, his name was removed from the lake and renamed Tahoe
b9lx9 TIL that on D Day the crew of the Battleship USS Texas intentionally flooded a torpedo tube in order to cause a 2 degree list, giving their main guns just enough extra elevation to boost their range & hit the target on the mainland.
wDb1 TIL, after hitting her head as a toddler, a woman claimed to have unlocked memories from a past life as a priestess in Ancient Egypt. She then went on to made great contributions to Egyptology, even successfully predicting the locations of paintings in complete darkness.
LQdeP TIL in 1660, a man disappeared and his items were found cut and sprinkled in blood. It was claimed that his brother and mother had killed him and dumped his body in a pond. No body was found but they were found guilty and hanged. The man reappeared in 1662, claiming to have been abducted by pirates
PBLE TIL Michael Jackson’s Pepsi accident, where his hair caught fire, occurred exactly on the middle day of his life.