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TIL The Texas Revolution was mainly fought because Mexico abolished slavery

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QNQye TIL about the "Gimli Glider", a Boeing 767 jet that ran out of fuel and glided for 17 minutes without engine power, crash-landing on a crowded racetrack with no deaths or major injuries. Other pilots who used a flight simulator to reenact the incident all failed to land safely.
4XO0g TIL during WWI, due to concerns the public would reject their product, American sauerkraut makers relabeled it as "Liberty Cabbage".
0wGp TIL Jesus Christ is mentioned in the Qur'an five times more often than Muhammad
O7Bg TIL Sonny Bono remains the only member of Congress to have had a number one single on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart
R59ZQ TIL that when U.S. Counties are ranked by per capita income, of the worst 5 percent of the counties, one - third are named for Confederate Leaders.