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TIL that in Israel there is something called the “Jewish Internet Defense Force”, a government run propagandist movement that hires Israeli students, puts them in front of a computer googling to find anything that criticises Israel and had them try to remove it or claim it is a lie…

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5Vwjn TIL about Oscar Micheaux’ 1920 film WITHIN OUR GATES which is the earliest known surviving feature directed by an African American as well as one of the oldest surviving rebuttals to the racism of D. W. Griffith’s film BIRTH OF A NATION
6kB7 TIL that Freddy Mercury and Paul McCartney used the same piano to record the songs “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Hey Jude”.
gMOyL TIL Shaquille O'Neal attempted only 22 3-pointers in his NBA career. He only made 1 of them.
jNgyp TIL: Homo Erectus lived for much longer than even our current species. H. Erectus was around for about 2 million years before being wiped out, H. Sapiens have only been around for about 200,000 years.
MRw7 TIL When Pearl Jam released their cover of ‘Last Kiss’ as a single, they decided all proceeds would go to Kosovo War refugees. The song raised ten million dollars.