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TIL that between 1967 and 1989 East Germany sent a massive amount of arms to ANYONE at war with Israel - to the tune of three quarters of a million Klashnikovs, 120 MiG fighters, 180,000 anti-personell mines, 235,000 grenades; 25,000 RPG launchers; and 25 million cartridges of varying sizes.

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grDZW TIL W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a predominantly white town that was unusually tolerant for its time. He was the only Black child in school but received support from white teachers and classmates, who even helped fund his education.
mx6RO TIL in 1971, astronaut Alan Shepard hit 2 golf balls on the moon - he hit the first one into a crater, and claimed to have smashed the second one "miles and miles and miles". However, recent research has shown that the first ball travelled 24 yards (22 m), and the second ball only 40 yards (37 m)
b6EMp TIL DVD started out as two competing standards by Sony/Phillips and Toshiba/Time Warner. The two ended up unifying into a single project after IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Compaq and Hewlett Packard said they would boycott booth unless they did so.
Egod TIL that in the United States, having child pornography often results in a harsher sentence than actually molesting a child would
M7mYB TIL the Easter Rising leader was imprisoned in Lincoln Prison, where he became an altar boy to steal the chaplain's key and make a wax mold. He sent its shape by postcard. Friends made the key, hid it in fruitcake and sent it. 3 tries later, he escaped in 1919. He went on to be President of Ireland.