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TIL multiple states on the East Coast of the U.S. had official programs to pressure freed African Americans to move back to Africa.

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ejAL TIL that transgender females can fight naturally-born women in mixed martial arts competitions
j4GR TIL that Rod Serling, creator and narrator of The Twilight Zone, co-wrote the film adaptation of The Planet of the Apes. He is the one responsible for the famous twist at the end.
gVX8 TIL in 1978, a Russian physicist, Anatoli Bugorski, was struck accidentally by the proton beam of a particle accelerator. ½ of his face swelled beyond recognition and became paralysed. Amazingly, he survived and completed his PhD. He is still alive today.
nWvZG TIL of the Ice Cream barge, a concrete barge that was acquired by U.S. Navy to make Ice Cream for troops in the Pacific during WW2. It produced 10 US Gallons (38 L) of Ice Cream every 7 minutes.
r5Px TIL Jackie Kennedy despised Dr. Martin Luther King for allegedly showing up to JFK’s funeral drunk.