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TIL the revolutionaries behind the 1817 Pernambucan revolt in Brazil planned to bust out Napoleon from his exile on Saint Helena Island and bring him to South America

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kp15 TIL Ayn Rand took Social Security benefits and likely medicaid as well.
KOEpJ TIL dogs will often burrow under blankets in bed because they feel the most safe and comforted there since it’s where their owners sleep.
dDke7 TIL the first woman to be executed by the U.S. federal government was Mary Surratt, conspiring in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
pYw9Z TIL of Operation Downfall, the plan to land troops on mainland Japan during WW2 if they had not surrendered. The plan involved over 600,000 troops, and 15 tactical nuclear strikes. Every Purple Heart awarded since WW2 was made in preparation for this plan.
b9pxQ TIL to gaslight someone, meaning to make one think they're going crazy, comes from the movie Gaslight (1944), where a husband tried to make his wife (Ingrid Bergman) think that very thing by dimming the gas lights in house and making her think she was imagining it.