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TIL of the existence of Truckers Against Trafficking a group of volunteer truckers who work together and train others to spot human traffickers…

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neo6W TIL Davy Crockett was not only an American pioneer, but a politician and a soldier: as a member of U.S. Congress he vehemently opposed Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act (which led to the Trail of Tears) and eventually died in the Battle of the Alamo in 1836.
4XnJg TIL: That our solar system is flying through the Milky Way Galaxy at an incomprehensible 828,000 Kilometers an hour, but the Milky Way is so big that it still takes the Solar System 230 million years to orbit it.
6748 TIL 73% of French people think any time is a good time to enjoy a pastry
M7MkB TIL female marmosets are more likely to commit infanticide when they're pregnant and getting close to giving birth to increase their own baby's odds of having a successful life
yVk9p TIL that SMS Schleswig-Holstein fired the first shots of World War II when she bombarded the Polish base at Danzig's Westerplatte in the early morning hours of 1 September 1939.