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

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Nxv8 TIL just before the Holocaust, Hitler offered 32 countries including the United States, Britain and Canada to take in Jews and let them leave peacefully “for all I [Hitler] care, even on luxury ships.” They all refused, leading to Hitler’s ‘Final Solution.’
WWj8 TIL During a psychotic episode when Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night, he accurately portrayed one of the most supremely difficult concepts nature has ever brought before mankind known as Fluid Dynamics.
Dajv TIL that there is an FAA regulation called the ‘Sterile Cockpit Rule’, requiring flight crews to only discuss topics related to the flight below 10,000 feet.
R54RQ TIL of Cordell Jackson, who (among other things) is thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label.
JY6ak TIL Stephen Colbert’s father and 2 brothers died in a plane crash when he was 10. His improv teacher told him “you gotta learn to love the bomb” and as a result, years later he came to realize “I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.”