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TIL that in 2011, a couple was banned from a Kentucky church due them being in an interracial relationship.

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9bwM TIL a broker spent $520m in a drunken stupor and moved the global oil price.
4Xj8o TIL The intensity of sound is measured in decibels (dB), the decibel scale is logarithmic. Basically a 40dB sound is not twice as loud as 20dB one, but a hundred times louder. Also one alarm clock ringing at 70dB, two alarm clocks ringing together don’t hit 140dB on scale but measure 73dB.
E7wX TIL that the United States of America placed 120,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps. Their property was confiscated before they entered the camps. It was never returned. Tax records were destroyed which meant camp attendees could not claim compensation for property loss.
rNADM TIL that the parasite H. zschokkei is the only multicellular organism that does not rely on Oxygen for respiration. It relies on a currently undiscovered energy metabolism to sustain itself.
xVMw7 TIL in 2013 a Toyota Auris Hybrid was the first car in decades of testing to complete the Auto Motor und Sport 100k km long term reliability test without any defects outside normal wear items.