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TIL J. Edgar Hoover was made aware of the planned attacks on Pearl Harbour on three separate occasions, one of which was by Duško Popov, a triple agent during WWII

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59Yn TIL: Widely publicized testimony given in 1990 claiming Iraqi soldiers took babies out of incubators and left them to die is today admitted to be false and has largely come to be regarded as wartime propaganda.
N7vyJ TIL The First sporting event ever filmed was in 1894 James "Gentlemen Jim" Corbett fought Peter Courtney in 6 one-minute rounds at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio. This small piece of Round 1 is all that remains and is the oldest surviving footage of a sport being filmed.
OodbL TIL about Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. Scapegoated for taking jobs away from "real" Americans during the Great Depression, state and local governments illegally forced hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens into forced exile simply for having Mexican ancestry.
R7dGj TIL that the real Patch Adams things depression is a pharmaceutical diagnosis that was invented for the companies to sell drugs.
yQbnM TIL that apiarists, geneticists, and bee breeding engineers at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada have developed a new bee breed that is supposed to have beneficial traits, including strength and mite resistance, to try and cure colony collapse disorder and save the bees. #savethebees