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TIL: Maryland was a slave state that sided with the Union, but in 1864, they actually had a referendum to abolish slavery. It narrowly failed - until the absentee ballots from the soldiers at the front came in, at which point it overwhelmingly succeeded.

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YpNJd TIL about the "London Necropolis Railway", a railway line opened in 1854 just to carry corpses (and mourners) to a cemetery (at the time the largest in the world) 37km away from the city. There were even two stations in the cemetery, one for the Anglicans and one for non-Anglicans.
W0dB TIL Gaddafi once said “The Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this.
R5ovw TIL that Whoopi Goldberg does not have any eyebrows. In a 2022 episode of The View, Goldberg explained that she had them as a little kid but kept removing them ever since her mother did so when she began developing bumps on her face. Her costars also said they never noticed she didn't have any.
N7kOb TIL despite our thinking of the Big Bang as the universe’s “let there be light” moment, light did not exist until 240,000-300,000 years later.
0Kg1 TIL that when general Lee surrendered at the end of the Civil War he saw that Grant’s military secretary, Ely Parker, was a Seneca Indian and said: “ I am glad to see one real American here.” To which Parker responded : “We are all Americans”.