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TIL when brought before McCarthy’s ‘House Committee on Un-American Activities’ communist investigation, Ronald Reagan, then president of the Screen Actors Guild, named names when asked about actors in his union who could be 'communist sympathizers’. This resulted in his first wife divorcing him.

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Z1OG TIL The Songhai Empire collapsed following a battle when their army released 1000 cattle to charge the invading Moroccans but the cattle turned around and stampeded the Songhai because the Moroccans fired their guns and cannons.
woJmM TIL since 2022 people in South Lake Tahoe, California reported that a single, male bear was the cause of 28 home break-ins. They referred to him as Hank the Tank. But it turned out they had conflated the actions of 3 adult bears including a female (with 3 cubs) who accounted for 21 of the break-ins.
5ay8 TIL The CDC attributes the high rates of AIDS in Black communities to the DownLow lifestyle of gay black men that reject the Gay & LGBT as being white concepts. Non-Disclosure of male sex is a key factor in HIV transmission to black women; black men are less likely to know their infection status.
XP9P TIL a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas. It sold for over $63,000
pYNNA TIL about Sequoyah, a Native American of the early 19th centruy who, just seeing white people writing, understood what writing was and created, all by himself, an advanced syllabary system. After some years, more than 90% of Cherooke people were able to read.