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TIL that Robert Kraft Donated $100,000 To A Massachusetts Anti-Sex Trafficking Group In 2015

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KO5oa TIL about Elina Powell, a black nurse who served during WWII. She was assigned to work at a POW camp, like most African-American nurses at the time, and fell in love with a German POW there. They married and had children despite it being illegal in both the U.S and Germany during this time period.
1abZD TIL Arrow, a now-bankrupt Formula 1 team fell for a Nigerian Prince scam in 1999.
16OwO TIL a Cary, NC mother called for safer labels on packaging after her son was accidentally poisoned because he ate what he thought were Pop Rocks but instead were Lucky’s Mystical Dragon Flames, which is a chemical used to change the color of fire.
d5Nr TIL in 1971, the United states established a military base without consent of the native population. Measures to convince the natives to leave included restricting their food & medical supplies, as well as killing their dogs in front of them.
OoWga TIL of Cottle County, Texas. A rural northern Texas county that voted for the Democrat in every presidential election between 1912 and 1996, except once in 1928.