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TIL Waldo is US and Canadian. To everyone else, he's Wally.

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e0QWn TIL A fire truck from the TV show "Third Watch" was put into active duty with the FDNY in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
PYZOO TIL in 1795, the Spanish crown institutionalized the 'purchase of whiteness' through a decree called the 'gracias al sacar'. In the Spanish empire, wealthy mixed race people could now pay for a legal declaration that 'converted them' to white in order to conduct business freely and marry well.
5aOk TIL that slavery didn’t end after the Civil War. Until 1945, a system of neoslavery existed whereby African Americans could be arrested for not having jobs, then sold to companies like U.S. Steel through a “convict lease” system to do forced labor.
d8dRZ TIL Steve Jobs purchased a company from George Lucas in 1986, named it "Pixar", and its first client after being incorporated was Disney.
X00R8 TIL Adam Smith predicted the 13 colonies would defeat the British Empire & become a great empire itself