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TIL in addition to the protests & death threats Ruby Bridges had to face as the first black kid in a white school, her father lost his job, the local grocery store stopped serving the family, & her sharecropper grandparents were turned off their land.

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b9mRZ TIL the canyon where R2-D2 was attacked by Jawas is the same place where the Ark of the Covenant was opened in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
L79Q TIL that the German boxer Max Schmeling who was viewed as a “Nazi Puppet” personally saved the lives of two Jewish children by hiding them in his apartment during the Nazi purge of Jews from Berlin.
DrDD TIL use of the Nazi hand salute is currently a criminal offense in Germany, Italy, Japan, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Austria.
j6gNX TIL there is a type of lightning called an upward leader, where a charge starts from the ground and goes up to meet a step leader, which is a charge on its way down from the sky.
DLJD TIL the oldest unbroken alliance in the world is between England and Portugal dating back to 1373