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TIL that in 1937 a newspaper published a full-page map predicting Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

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OG8N4 TIL the Tower Bridge in London is a relatively modern bridge that was designed to look medieval. It's so modern in fact that there are pictures of it being built
4kADg TIL explorer Captain James Cook was fatally stabbed by a chieftain with a British-made dagger. Cook and his crew had earlier traded the dagger to the local Hawaiians.
gblD TIL that airline workers are classified as radiation workers (like people in nuclear power plants), because of how much exposure they get due to cosmic radiation making it through the thinner atmosphere while flying.
OodvY TIL until December 2018, selling comic books that depicted crimes was deemed illegal in Canada
Wkd6A TIL in 1959, rather than integrate, Prince Edward County in Virginia closed all of their public schools for FIVE YEARS. White children attended state-subsidized "private schools". No provision was made for educating the county's black children.