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TIL that there is a basketball court directly above the U.S. Supreme Court named “Highest Court in the Land”

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xAWw TIL the Oscar nominated documentary “Liberators” narrated by Denzel Washington, interviewing African American soldiers who liberated Buchenwald concentration camp was pulled by PBS when an investigation showed no African American GI’s played a role in the liberation of Buchenwald.
eEgL TIL that in 1998 CNN ran a false news report, accusing American soldiers of using sarin gas in a rescue mission titled, “Operation Tailwind” during the Vietnam War. The report would later go on to become the basis of a storyline in HBO’s The Newsroom.
ExeV TIL if cars were driven by computers, a single lane of freeway could transport road trains of up to 35,000 vehicles per hour (up from 1,500 human driven cars per hour)
R7rGa TIL Gary Sinise, known for his role as Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump, though the work of his Lt. Dan Band and the Gary Sinise Foundation, have provided at least 70 forever homes for veterans and officers injured in the line of duty.
XE9er TIL in 1965 Timothy Leary was convicted of possession of Marijuana and sentenced to 30 years in prison and fined $30,000 (2020: $250,000)