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TIL that The Beatles refused to play if the audience was segregated

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4k1ng TIL About the Smoot-Hawley Act, Which was the 20% Across the Board Tariff That Deepened the Great Depression and Resulted in the Largest Senate Seat Loss in History
KOkNE TIL : The Padmanabhaswamy temple is a Hindu temple located in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala in India.The temple has been a subject of enormous media coverage since it was revealed that the temple had huge amount of wealth hidden in it's undeground vaults.
kJw85 TIL there are 16 times more people buried in the Earth than walking on it. Yikes
b85a TIL Jupiter is as big as it can possibly get. If it gained more mass, it would begin to shrink due to higher gravity pulling the gasses in.
ADN17 TIL that despite US denial for 26 years, eight members of the Alabama Air National Guard volunteered to pose as Cuban rebel pilots during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Of these 8, 4 were killed when promised air cover never arrived, with two of the pilots dying in a firefight after being shot down.