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TIL Batman: The Animated Series was ranked by IGN as being the second best animated series ever, behind only The Simpsons

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Z8Nwo TIL in 1927, during the worst flood in the history of the Mississippi River Valley, Herbert Hoover and the Red Cross set up "concentration camps" comprised of African Americans forced to work at gunpoint on the levee, and created a media campaign to cover it up.
oBZoL TIL that an art collector once kept a statue of Buddha in his home unaware that inside was a 1,000-year-old mummified monk.
B4Zd TIL Ghost Busters Dan Aykroyd is slightly autistic. His obsession with the police and ghost hunters was the inspiration for Ghost Busters. He was diagnosed with autism back in the 1980s when his wife asked him to get it checked out. He also had Tourette’s as a kid, but overcame it with therapy.
Av9d TIL even though he was a teenager during the Great Depression, John F. Kennedy confessed he really didn’t know about it until he read about it at Harvard.
m1OWR TIL that Volleyball is estimated to be the sport with the second most participants in the world