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TIL of Daniel Sickles. He shot the son of Francis Scott Key in broad daylight for sleeping with his wife, and was the first person acquitted under the insanity defense. Later he was appointed a Union general, and lost his leg disobeying orders. He regularly claimed to be 6 years younger than he was.

by whatilearned May 27, 2023, 4:43 am

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TIL The main reason why so many English football/soccer clubs use the word ´United´in their name; to signify a union of two teams that were in close proximity, making them a stronger team.

by whatilearned May 20, 2023, 11:24 am

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TIL that Town Line, New York voted 85 to 40 to secede from Union along with the Confederacy, and did not rejoin the Union until 1946.

by whatilearned May 17, 2023, 2:21 am

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TIL The former Confederate President Jefferson Davis met a crowd of 7,000 cheering people when he came to Montreal, Canada. Montreal had been a safe haven for Confederates during the Civil War and some Canadians had supported the Confederacy out of fear the Union might invade Canada.

by whatilearned May 16, 2023, 11:26 am

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TIL that Ulysses S. Grant incurred more Union loss of life than was inflicted on the Confederacy during his Eastern Campaigns of the American Civil War.

by whatilearned May 5, 2023, 3:28 pm

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TIL: The 6 Mitford sisters were a famous aristocratic family heavily involved in wildly different political scenes in the 1900s. Unity was a close friend of Hitler and visited him often, Diana married the leader of British Union of Fascists, Jessica joined the American Communist Party, etc.

by whatilearned May 1, 2023, 12:13 pm

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TIL Chicory has been a historic substitute for coffee. Frederick the Great banned coffee in Prussia which led to the mass production of chicory by 1795 and the chicory drinks were common in Napoleonic France. Chicory drinks also became popular in Confederate states because of the Union blockade.

by whatilearned April 29, 2023, 12:41 pm

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TIL that in 1990, the Eastern Orthodox & Oriental Orthodox Churches concluded that their 1539 year schism (over whether Jesus had two natures joined perfectly in one incarnate union or one incarnate nature consisting of joined natures) was due to terminology confusion rather than theology

by whatilearned April 29, 2023, 12:32 am

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In what way is the Soviet Union like Madghosts?

by CopyPastaArchive April 28, 2023, 11:05 pm

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Soviet union but uwu (chat gpt)

by CopyPastaArchive April 15, 2023, 7:29 pm

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TIL: The descendants of Genghis Khan (1162 — 25 August 1227) continued to rule parts of Central Asia for 700 years until the 1920s, when they were conquered by the Bolsheviks and their states became part of the Soviet Union.

by whatilearned April 12, 2023, 10:55 am

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TIL that when Union General Ulysses S. Grant died, some of the pallbearers were ex-Confederates

by whatilearned April 6, 2023, 1:58 am

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