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TIL a bog is acidic & a fen is alkaline; a swamp has trees and woody plants & a marsh has other types of plants

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G4JG TIL that in 1873 a war broke out between Republicans and Democrats after both sides claimed they won the state election for Governor. Louisiana Democrats formed a “shadow” government, their own paramilitary force called the White League, and massacred more than 150 African Americans.
vbN4 TIL James Huberty called a mental health hotline, left his name, and waited for hours for them to return his call. His name was written down as “Shouberty” and the call was a non crisis because Huberty was so polite. 3 days later he carried out one of Americas worst rampage killings.
LkQeZ TIL there’s a museum in Amsterdam that houses deformed human embryos and other such abnormalities
BgXDk TIL that the Canadian animation studio CINAR, the people behind Arthur and Caillou, was embroiled in a financial scandal that lead to one of the longest criminal trials before a jury in Canadian history
0Q65 TIL of Thad Roberts, a former intern at NASA, who served a 6 year sentence in a federal prison after having sex with his girlfriend on a bed full of stolen moon rocks gathered from the Apollo 11 moon landing mission