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TIL that black travellers in the 1950s had their own guidebook to the US telling them where it was safe to stop, shop, eat and even stay the night.

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m1ZPp TIL Rob Walton (son of Walmart founder Sam Walton) crashed a 1 of 6 Shelby Daytona Coupe worth more than $14 million.
WkP5d TIL, nearly 4000 year old - Copper - Antenna Swords were found in India. Pic of sword in comment.
b67ZN TIL The Calgary Hitmen, a major junior hockey team that plays in the Western Hockey League, were named after Bret "The Hitman" Hart, a local-born WWF/WWE wrestler, who was a founding owner of the team in 1994.
nbVd TIL another term for an intrusive thought is “The Imp of the Perverse”, a metaphor (popularized / coined by Edgar Allan Poe) for the urge to do exactly the wrong thing in a given situation for the sole reason that it is possible for wrong to be done.
v1DbK TIL that Crossroads, the first ever Kazakh soap opera (1996-2000), was funded by the British government in order to promote capitalism, was modeled on 'EastEnders' and became wildly popular across Central Asia