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TIL about the song Kill the Boer that was used by by anti-Apartheid activists.

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16ox4 TIL that on May 1, 1969 Mr. Rogers, host of the longtime children's television landmark Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, appeared in Washington before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications to express his disagreement with a proposal by President Nixon to cut federal funding for public broadcasting.
4goN TIL that some schools in the Southern United States still hold two separate, segregated proms- one for whites and one for blacks.
R7QGa TIL It is estimated that 300,000 children were abducted by the Franco regime in Spain
YpLgW TIL when President Polk asked Congress to declare war on Mexico citing that it had "shed American blood upon the American soil", then-Representative Abraham Lincoln protested with resolutions demanding to know the "particular spot of soil on which the blood of our citizens was so shed."
5Y6xR TIL kids in Japan play more violent video games than American kids do yet are less aggressive.