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TIL That Rage Against the Machine ordered donuts for 300 police officers who protested them outside a show in Massachusetts

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gMO54 TIL In 1994, the KKK applied to sponsor a section of the Interstate 55 highway near St. Louis, Missouri. The Supreme Court ruled the state could not refuse the KKK's sponsorship. But the state of Missouri took revenge by renaming the entire stretch of highway the "Rosa Parks Freeway."
P1mrg TIL that in the city of Lincoln, IL, a phone booth was installed in the 1960s on the rooftop of City Hall, a 3 story building. Why? Weather watching and reporting. It is still there.
woPmM TIL WW2 sunken ships are being "grave robbed" due to their incredibly valuable steel
OoKZX TIL November 2, 2000 was the last time all humans were on Earth together. Ever since then, at least one person has remained on the International Space Station.
P1L5V TIL that Rickey Henderson was so proud of earning a million dollar signing bonus that he had the check framed instead of cashing it. He saved the envelopes of cash teams gave players for per diem expenses, allowing his kids to pick them out of a box when they did well in school