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TIL that Japanese, South Koreans and Taiwanese were considered ‘honorary whites’ by the Apartheid-Era South African government and were granted most of the rights usually reserved for white citizens

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b69EQ TIL that Tennessee's has a state artifcat - the Mississippian stone statue, a statue of a kneeling man carved by an unknown Native American artist between 1250-1350. It was discovered in Wilson County in 1939.
X0eBr TIL that General Mills acquired Red Lobster in 1970 when they only had 5 locations.
mxnaO TIL Raiders of the Lost Ark was originally going to have an elaborate fight scene between Indiana Jones and a master swordsman. But Harrison Ford was ill so they just had Indy pull out a gun and shoot him instead.
KYGW9 TIL scientists at Australia’s most famous radio telescope were baffled by signal bursts coming from the direction of distant galaxies for 17 years before they were eventually traced back to someone at the facility opening the door of a microwave oven while it was still running, causing interference
GYjN1 TIL The name Nimrod used to mean a skillful hunter…until bugs bunny changed it.