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TIL that famous 60’s radio host Wolfman Jack had two crosses burned on his lawn for playing music by black artists.

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6LeZ TIL General Order No. 11 (1862) was an order issued by Ulysses S. Grant ordering the expulsion of Jews in his district, comprising areas of TN, MS, and KY as part of a campaign against a black market in Southern cotton, which he thought was being run “mostly by Jews and other unprincipled traders.”
WkrPY TIL: Qubilah Shabazz tried to arrange the murder of Louis Farrakhan because of his responsibility in the death of her father. Malcolm X.
v1oKB TIL Bounty is a candy bar made by Mars and sold in Canada and Europe made with coconut covered with milk chocolate. If this sounds familiar to Americas, it is similar to the Mounds bar except Mounds is made with dark chocolate.
b9ZeQ TIL There is a parasitic worm in grasshoppers that after growing to maturity, makes the grasshoppers seek water and drown themselves to return the parasite to water
4D45 TIL Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, was the first president to be born in a hospital.