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9Q8r TIL: Kentucky never seceded from the Union during the Civil War, sent more than twice as many soldiers to the Union Army, and yet of the 74 Civil War monuments in Kentucky 72 are for the Confederacy.
6E5yW TIL that pyjamas (pajamas in the US) became fashionable because of World War I zeppelin air raids on Britain. Thrust into the evening due to an air raid, pyjamas were more practical and fashionable than night dresses, and coincided with the "new novelty" of women wearing trousers.
VjZp TIL Quality of US teachers was so poor in 2001 that the average teacher only scored better than 42% of students. By 2008, it was only up to 50%. This was done by requiring qualifications such as actually having degrees in whatever they are teaching.
X0rlE TIL in 1966, thousands of Igbo people in Nigeria were massacred in a pogrom. So the Igbo people seceded from Nigeria in 1967 and formed the independent nation of Biafra, resulting in the Nigerian government deliberately starving millions of people in Biafra to death
4k1r5 TiL: In Michigan a husband may open carry his wife's pistol but a wife may not carry her husband's pistol in most cases.