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TIL of a coal mine fire that has been burning under Pennsylvania since the 1960s.

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GYM9E TIL about the Milford massacre. 52 European settlers of Milford, MN were killed in 1 day by a band of Dakota Sioux.
R7brj TIL: When Wilson was elected President. He immediately began a re-segregation and firing of Black Federal Workers. This led to some black federal workers being forced to eat in cages so as to not come into contact with white women.
BrYgb TIL of Junaid, an orphan from Bangladesh who lived in the streets surviving on scrap food, put himself through school by working as a carpenter, fisherman, almost died in an accident, worked at a brick factory while recovering from it and was accepted into a top engineering school
Oo5RY TIL that every resident of Alaska receives ~$2,000 a year because of a payout from an oil wealth trust fund.
rRJMe TIL about drunken boxing, founded by Liu Qizan, a murderer seeking refuge at a monastery who supposedly beat 30 monks so soundly while drunk they made his form a legitimate style