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TIL the shortest recorded war lasted only 45 minutes!

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R7kB1 TIL Aretha Franklin's voice was designated a natural resource by the State of Michigan in 1985
E1Nb7 TIL the highest grossing basketball movie of all time is Space Jam
8GXZ TIL that in 1943 hundreds of Aryan women gathered in Berlin to protest the mass arrest and consequent imprisonment of their Jewish husbands by the Gestapo. Following a week of protesting, night and day, they won their husbands’ freedom.
5YAnp TIL that Grace Slick, singer of Jefferson Airplane, conspired a plot to spike Richard Nixon’s drink with 600 micrograms of LSD at a White House tea party. She was denied entry, but not before her companion hung a huge black flag with a marijuana leaf on the WH gate.
YapA TIL That when Napoléon I emancipated the Jews he stated “I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country” the Russian Orthodox Church labelled him as the ‘Anti-Christ and The Enemy of God’