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TIL Italian-Americans Were the Victims in the Worst Lynching in American History

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1xAW TIL that the Chicago Cubs were the first baseball team to win back-to-back World Series; and haven’t won since
j6dLj TIL Amos Lunt, the San Quentin hangman, claimed he was being tormented by the ghosts of those he executed. He eventually had to be committed to an asylum
N7Qw1 TIL about Alkaline hydrolysis (water cremation) where a body is heated in a mix of water and potassium hydroxide down to its chemical components, which are then disposed of through the sewer, or as a fertilizer. This method takes 1/4 of the energy of heat cremation with less resulting pollutants.
rNwAW TIL that Hitler never called the Nazi symbol a "swastika" and called it a "hakenkreuz" (hooked/twisted cross) instead. Many Hindus, Jains, and Buddhists have advocated for adopting hakenkreuz in the English language to avoid confusion
mxAPR TIL of bematists of ancient Greek and Egypt, trained professionals who were hired to measure distance by counting their highly accurately spaced steps. The mathematician Eratosthenes worked out the circumference of the Earth using bematists' work.