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TIL: In 2000 the KKK adopted a stretch of highway near St Louis, the MO government responded by renaming the road the “Rosa Parks Highway”.

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6QyW TIL there have been no recorded human deaths due to a meteorite fall.
l78yN TIL That Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the first Americans to be tired and executed for stealing nuclear documents from the US Government during peacetime.
ayeo TIL of Captain Mbaye Diagne, a Senegalese unarmed military observer with the UN during the Rwandan Genocide. Alone and against orders, he used his UN vehicle to ferry hundreds of Tutsis and moderate Hutus to safety, bluffing, bribing and begging his way through checkpoints manned by génocidaires.
WkOAd TiL When F4 Phantom pilots were carrying a nuclear payload, they were issued an eye patch. Before they flew into the target area, they would put the eye patch on, just in case they accidentally blinded themselves with one of their own nukes, they'd still have one good eye. Link is a pilot interview
jOdR TIL the ‘Secret’ Coca-Cola component (flavoring 7X) was leaked in 2011. The ingredients are a mix of herb, spices, and fruits from oils of orange, lemon, nutmeg, cinnamon, coriander, and neroli. This gave the medicinal claims Coca-Cola had about alleviating headaches.