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TIL Groucho Marx, on a trip to Berlin in 1958, danced the Charleston on the rubble of Hitler’s bunker

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69ynw TIL Mississippi did not complete ratification and certification of the 13th amendment (outlawing slavery) until 1995 and 2013
5YbVn TIL that despite stealing $2.2 million dollars and being a convicted felon for being a perpetrator of the largest public school embezzlement in American history, Frank Tassone receives a pension of $173,495 a year for life because New York State does not bar felons from collecting pensions.
e0bkk TIL In 1989 a Crane Operator in San Francisco has Dumped a Stone Parking Barrier in the Golden Gate Park. 4 Years Later local Hindus discovered that stone and began worshipping it until the authorities remove it in 1994.
rRm81 TIL Before he became a founding father of the United States, Benjamin Franklin established one of America’s first volunteer fire departments.
j6NdQ TIL the United States invaded Panama in 1989 to depose its leader Manuel Noriega