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TIL most Confederate statues were built in the early 1900s, and then again in the 1950s and 60s. Both were times of extreme civil rights tension.

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wg5J TIL that the longest filibuster in US history was conducted by Strom Thurmond who spoke continuously for 24 hours and 18 minutes in an unsuccessful attempt to block the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
jNWap TIL Despite smoking marijuana, using large amounts of cocaine, drinking to excess & being a heavy cigarette smoker, actor Steve McQueen followed a daily two-hour exercise regimen involving weightlifting and, at one point, running 5 miles, seven days a week and learned martial arts.
mxpy TIL that every president ever assassinated has tried to either put U.S. Dollar notes into circulation or end the private banking systems in the U.S.
VXOm TIL Robert Lincoln, son of President Lincoln was saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, the brother of his father’s killer, John Wilkes Booth.
NXY5b TIL Carrot Top is the son of a NASA engineer