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TIL that even the Ku Klux Klan classifies the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group; the KKK were one of the main counter protesters against the Church's anti-Memorial Day protests at the Arlington Cemetery, Virginia

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5YkXr TIL Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was written by Johnny Marks, a Jewish man who based the story on his own childhood and struggles as a small and shy underdog
9rjp TIL that George Foreman was banking $8M PER MONTH during the height of the Foreman Grill craze
kOY0B TIL that the word "nightmare" is derived from the Old English "mare", a mythological demon that rides on people's chests while they sleep, causing bad dreams.
d5RQ TIL General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, on the march north to Gettysburg, captured free black men and sent them south into slavery
kJlE5 TIL the BBC programme "The Black and White Minstrel Show," with white actors performing in blackface, aired for 20 years ending in 1978. Once, in 1967, as an experiment, the network aired a version where black actors performed in whiteface.