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TIL Speedy Gonzales was banned by Cartoon Network for being an offensive stereotype, only to be returned after mass protest by the hispanic-american community.

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5YNJR TIL Scientists have known cloth masks helped prevent infections from respiratory droplets since 1897
R7kXj TIL: The eruption of mount vesuvius, which decimated pompeii, occoured on 24 August AD 79, just one day after Vulcanalia, the festival of the Roman god of fire, including that from volcanoes.
ANpKl TIL that in 1991, U.S. Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary Mike Basham learned that Salomon trader Paul Mozer had been submitting false bids in an attempt to purchase more treasury bonds than permitted by one buyer during the period between December 1990 and May 1991. Salomon was fined $190 million.
d8NXj TIL that the Monarchy of Norway was founded in 872AD, been in power for over a 1000 years.
nkXP TIL that Morocco was the first country to recognize the US as an independent country and during the Revolutionary War, the Sultan of Morocco promised safe passage from Barbary Pirates for all merchant American ships traveling across the Atlantic