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TIL Alan Pinkerton fled to America for being associated with workers rights groups in Scotland. He aided John Brown, opposed slavery, and protected Lincoln from assassination plots. However, The Pinkertons would become most infamous for their violence and subterfuge of striking workers.

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egrk TIL the State of Mississippi borrowed $7 million from creditors in England to issue bonds for the creation of two state-owned banks, and rather than repay the debt, Mississippi amended its constitution to prohibit repayment in its entirety.
4X6mX TIL the C.I.A. Purchased the Film Rights to George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and Changed its Ending to be More Anti-Communist
PYY8w TIL Tom Petty needed an actress to be a dead woman for a music video. He explained his choice by saying "She's got to look really good, or why would [I] keep her around after she's dead?" I thought, Kim Basinger would be good. I'd probably keep her for a day or two, let's go see if she would do it."
waVE TIL in 1962, a man named Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet Naval Officer, cast a single vote that prevented a nuclear attack on the US Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis and is credited for preventing a thermonuclear World War 3.
60M7 TIL Albert Einstein’s son, Hans, was a famous hydraulic engineering professor who developed important equations for sediment transport in rivers. When reporters asked Albert what he thought of his son’s career, he replied, “He is working on a more difficult problem”