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AG6x TIL that after Key West declared itself an independent nation, the mayor appointed himself prime minister, declared war on the United States, immediately surrendered to a man in a naval uniform, then applied for a billion dollars in foreign aid.
N7ZZJ TIL in 1956, the American Legion hall in Roanoke, Virginia spontaneously desegregated during a Fats Domino concert, where approximately 2,000 whites, crowded on an undersized balcony, migrated to the main (blacks only) dance floor.
y0kl TIL that first widely spread computer virus, “Brain” was not malicious. It was made by two brothers from Pakistan, and even included their phone and address in the code so people could let them know they got it.
rNDe TIL that in 1994 there was a mass genocide where over 1,000,000 people were murdered in 100 days and the worlds leaders knew and did nothing.
W7NOL TIL Jerusalem is named after the Canaanite god of the setting sun and the nether world, as well as of health and perfection. Shalim is also identified as the deity representing Venus or the "Evening Star" and Shahar the "Morning Star."