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TIL the states of Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas officially recognize Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday.

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9r7Q TIL there is an American charity that pays drug addicts roughly $300 to get sterilized.
NX0mP TIL the 1958 Disney nature film White Wilderness staged a lemming death plunge, pushing dozens of lemmings off a cliff while cameras were rolling. This perpetuated the myth that lemmings commit mass-suicide for years to come.
1apDV TIL that the Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard) have their own catering support unit for prolonged incidents called TEAPOT1
X0Mv6 TIL the Phil Collins album No Jacket Required is named after an incident at a Chicago restaurant where Collins was denied admittance. Collins later appeared on TV denouncing the restaurant who in turn sent him a sport coat and an apology, saying he could come back wearing whatever he wanted.
wo6X6 TIL about Operation Paul Bunyan, where the US cut down a tree in the Korean DMZ as a response to the murder of two officers, deploying over 800 soldiers and air support without any shots fired. The operation left a 19-foot stump as a reminder of the incident.