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TIL During his Presidency, John Quincy Adams planned on funding an expedition to the center of the earth to establish a trade route with mythical “Mole People.”

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WLy4 TIL you can Street View around the Old City in Jerusalem
Zpx1Q TIL during the Battle of Waterloo the French suffered nearly 40,000 casualties making it one of the deadliest events in French military history. The defeat marked the end of Napoleon’s military career
epZE5 TIL in 2010 during Netherlands' Remembrance Day ceremony a man screamed so loud into crowd of 20,000 people it caused a panic stampede injuring 87.
xVogk TIL That Anita Hemmings was the first African-American female to graduate from Vassar College. She did this by pretending to be spanish, however she was discovered the day before graduation. She still received her diploma.
woXRJ TIL about death flights. Captives would be loaded into a plane, stripped, and pushed out over the ocean. These account for 1500-2000 of the 20k-30k estimated to have been disappeared by the Argentine military between 1976 and 1983 in the Argentine Dirty War.