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kORpg TIL of Willie James Howard, a 15 year old African-American boy who was lynched for writing a love letter to a white girl. No charges were ever brought against his killers.
LQ709 TIL Georgian has a vigesimal (20-based) number system
VVyp TIL George Washington stopped the Revolutionary War to return a lost dog to the enemy. The terrier of a British general was found wandering the battlefield. The US waved a truce flag, and both sides stopped shooting until the dog was successfully returned to the British commander.
GMQ1 TIL magic mushrooms may give users trippy experiences by creating a hyperconnected brain. The active ingredient in the psychedelic drug, psilocybin, seems to completely disrupt the normal communication networks in the brain, by connecting “brain regions that don’t normally talk together.”
nWD49 TIL During the American Revolutionary era tar and feathering was used as a form of vigilante justice to punish British Loyalist traitors