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TIL that Central Park in New York was once home to a thriving free black community called Seneca Village.

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E1QRV TIL of Mikhail Krichevsky, the longest-living veteran of the First World War. When he died in 2008 at age 111, he was the last surviving veteran of the Tsar's army
nPO7 TIL Ontario Canada has a law that states an apology is not an admission of guilt
NonN TIL that in 1915, the Washington Post made one of the most infamous typos in newspaper history by misspelling ‘entertaining’ as 'entering’ while covering one of Woodrow Wilson’s dates with his fiancée: “Rather than paying attention to the play, the President spent the evening entering Mrs. Galt.”
LeXP TIL that the “loose lips sink ships” propaganda campaign in WWII was not really designed to keep shipping information from German agents but rather to keep American morale up by not communicating how many US ships were being sunk by Germany
7rDax TIL about the Vajont Dam Disaster. In 1963 after reporting numerous warning signs about the the risks of a landslide some journalists were sued by the goverment for "undermining the social order". A landslide eventually occurred causing an overflow and killing between 1,900 and 2,500 people