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TIL the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the gradual voluntary extinction of humankind.

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pYAJA TIL that despite being besieged virtually continuously through more than three years of civil war, Plymouth never fell to the enemy.
lyEG TIL After killing Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr traveled to Europe and solicited funds to raise an army and invade Mexico. He planned on making himself the king of Mexico.
ANrBB TIL that more than 16 million official U.S. military personnel records were destroyed when the sixth floor of the National Personnel Records Center caught fire in 1973. The archive did not have a sprinkler system, smoke detectors, or firewalls
OoN57 TIL: You can "TAKE YOUR SECRET TO THE GRAVE" without dying. A hollow tombstone in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery has a slot for depositing papers bearing secrets. (But at your own risk: the artist who says she'll burn the papers has done "performance art" of reading aloud her own dead mom's diary.)
vPE1B TIL that in the middle ages, men who wanted a boy sometimes had their left testicle removed as they believed that the left testicle produce "girl" sperm and the right testicle produce "boy" sperm