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TIL that on the eve of the civil war 44% of florida’s population was made up of enslaved people

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Y77W7 TIL Dandelions are not native to North America and are believed to have been introduced from the colonists aboard the Mayflower.
rN0do TIL the United States Army is the largest single employer of musicians in the country
1aO5W TIL about Carl Schurz, at first a soldier in the German revolution of '48, who busted out his friend from a prison in Berlin, fled on a boat to Edinburg, emigrated to the US, became a Union General in the Civil War, then US Senator, and later secretary of the interior. Mark Twain wrote his obituary.
X0B9D TIL that the fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. The 36-letter word was first used by the Roman poet Horace to criticise those writers with an unreasonable penchant for long words. It was an American poet, Aimee Nezheukumatathil, to rediscover it.
O8aX TIL that during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie [1983], produced and co-directed by Stephen Spielberg, a helicopter-crash stunt gone wrong resulted in the decapitation-death of star Vic Murrow and two young child actors, all of which was caught on tape by three cameras.