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TIL that in 1995, less than half of the US approved of interracial marriages.

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jJ6j TIL that the people that created the Polio Vaccine did not patent it and instead donated it as a gift to humanity.
Xnnr TIL that the original World Trade Center towers were designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707
yJJl TIL that 1389 people died at Tsar Nicholas II’s coronation party as people were trampled due to rumors that there wasn’t enough free beer and food.
p8OyN TIL Mussolini called Hitler's Mein Kampf "a boring tome that I have never been able to read" and said Hitler's views were "little more than commonplace clichés"
KOV0B TIL in 2000, Sonny Sandoval, lead singer of Nu Metal group POD, was responsible for the increased popularity of the name “Nevaeh” which is “Heaven” spelled backwards.