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TIL about the Ludlow Massacre when a corporation used the National Guard to kill the company's employees for daring to strike

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b9rKQ TIL that the word palindrome spelled backwards is emordnilap and an emordnilap is actually a word that, when spelled backwards, makes a new word (ex: desserts & stressed). So basically, "emordnilap palindrome" is an emordnilap palindrome.
KYO8J TIL that it is 100% legal to leave/abandon your baby at a firestation in the USA due to safe haven laws.
dDXD7 TIL The United States is closer to the Netherlands than Brazil
QNDN6 TIL that Apple code-named the PowerMac 7100 “Carl Sagan.” Sagan sent a C&D letter, Apple complied, renaming it “BHA” for “Butthead Astronomer.” Settling out of court, the final name became “LAW” for “Lawyers are Wimps.”
ADgWx TIL Freud never cured a single patient, saw psychoanalysis largely as a way to make money and once told a patient her sore throat was a symptom of her unconscious desire to suck her father's penis