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TIL of the largest general strike in history in May 1968, when 11 million French citizens spent 2 weeks on strike to protest the heavy-handed police response to student protests earlier that year, resulting in an early election call

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NBeb TIL: A perpetual world calendar (matching days of the week with dates every year) was nearly internationally adopted after WW2 until organized religion ended the attempt.
VVVQ TIL dead passengers on British Airways flights are disguised using sunglasses, a vodka tonic and a blanket
wPW8 TIL after the 9/11 attacks, Clear Channel released a list of ‘questionable’ songs that it recommended that its subsidiaries 'might not want to play’. The list included all recorded songs by Rage Against the Machine
yQbZX TIL of Clarence Elkins, who was wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his mother-in-law and assault of his 6-year-old niece. His wife worked hard to exonerate him and found a likely suspect who was in the same jail as him. Clarence collected a cigarette he’d used. His DNA matched.
k081 TIL That on this day in 1963 the US Military created an artificial ring around the earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.