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TIL: the last stage robbery was on December 5, 1916,

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dDLrr TIL in the beginning of 20th century, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was ended bc the British Empire refused to accept Japanese proposal of Racial Equality Clause. Turning the later World War 2 moral positions on its head.
Emad TIL that when Huckleberry Finn was first published, it was banned not for being racist as it is many times today, but for NOT being racist. It showed the friendship between a black man and a white boy.
D18dv TIL in 1915 the Boy Scouts created a secret society with its own symbols, handshakes, and private rituals. It was eventually named "Order of the Arrow" and was inspired by Native American and Masonic culture. Their society was also influenced by the poem "Hiawatha" and novel "Last of the Mohicans".
b6rdN TIL that in 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni famously canned 90 tins of his own feces, titled them "Artist's Shit," and sold them at the price of their equivalent weight in gold.
Wkbao Today I Learned that famous Albinoni Adagio in G minor was not composed by Albinoni. It was not even composed in the Baroque Era. It is a composition by the Italian musicologist Remo Giazotto in middle 20th century