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TIL that the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War, was actually one of a series of treaties known as the Peace of Paris, which included two treaties signed in Versailles with France and Spain.

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4XYJR Fifty years ago today, air stewardess Vesna Vulovic plunged more than 33,000 feet from an exploding airliner, landed in a Czechoslovak mountain range, and survived. Subsequently, it was determined that Vulovic’s fall was the highest that a human has ever sustained without a parachute.
e0kX4 TIL Julius Caesar's book, "Commentary on the Gallic War," a chronicle of his military campaign in Gaul, he mentions two real centurions, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo. Their fictionalized exploits were used as the basis for the television series "Rome."
DByp TIL There is an evil counterpart to Santa named Krampus. Krampus physically beats bad children before sacking them away to Hell.
9wZrB TIL that when U.S. General George S. Patton died in late 1945, the French government offered to bury him beside Napoleon in Paris out of gratitude for his role in the liberation of France and western Europe.
Y7ygd TIL that George Washington moved his slaves in and out of Pennsylvania every 6 months to avoid them taking advantage of a law whereby slaves residing in the state longer than that could claim freedom