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TIL in 1968, at just 20 years old, Fred Hampton brokered a nonaggression pact among Chicago's most powerful street gangs and organized a multiracial "Rainbow coalition" to help end infighting and push for social change. He was then murdered in his sleep by the FBI.

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JYwOB TIL that the US Food & Drug Administration keeps extending the deadline for the biggest food chains to comply with nearly decade-old federal calorie disclosure laws
PNwJ TIL cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched into space as a Soviet citizen, but returned to earth as a Russian citizen - he was in orbit when the Soviet Union dissolved on December 26, 1991.
LkpkV TIL that even if we didn't see sunlight,our bodies would still have a 24hour circadian rhythm.We would sense Zeitgebers,things that regularly happen in the course of 1 day,like temperature fluctuations or even our morning coffee and latch itself onto them.It's how blind people's bodies count hours.
16OL4 TIL in early 2000 when Eminem submitted The Marshall Mathers LP to label boss Jimmy Iovine, he was unsatisfied & said that it didn't have a hit single. In direct response to this, Em created the album's second single "The Way I Am" with the track's piano rhythm even coming to him on the plane home.
69EkZ TIL the 1960's Pink Panther car was custome built on an Oldsmobile Chassis & V8 engine. Instead of a rearview mirror it had a camera and back and black & white television monitor. The 'Panthermobile' cost $100,000 to build, equivalent to $476,000 in 2021.