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TIL that the man who led the attack on Pearl Harbor became a Christian evangelist after the war and settled in the US

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k7M5 TIL in 2013 Montana proposed a bill that would allow sheriffs to arrest FBI agents for arresting people - and charge them for kidnapping
Vl1D TIL that there is a black patch in the ceiling of Grand Central that is a symbol of what the ceiling used to look like, when smoking was allowed in Grand Central.
rNGLo TIL of Andras Toma, a Hungarian POW capturer near Krakow by Russians in 1945. None of the Russian doctors understood Hungarian, believing Andras to be speaking gibberish. It wasn't until 2000, when a Slovakian came around and understood he was speaking a real language. He was released after 55 years
neJVG TIL of Latasha Harlins a 15 year old African American girl who was shot and killed by a Korean store owner in 1991. Despite being convicted the store owner received no jail time. Many people cite this case as one of the causes of the LA riots.
9w4r7 TIL that a member of the Manson family attempted to kill president Gerald R. Ford