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TIL Stars are so foreign to people living in Los Angeles that when the 1994 earthquake knocked out power they called local officials to question them about the strange thing in the sky, it was the Milky Way.

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Emad TIL that when Huckleberry Finn was first published, it was banned not for being racist as it is many times today, but for NOT being racist. It showed the friendship between a black man and a white boy.
Doaj TIL that the CIA hired a magician to train agents in sleight of hand techniques for use in their mickey-slipping LSD experiments…
QJA5d TIL that during World War II, the US Navy’s Third Fleet and Fifth Fleet were largely composed of the same ships. The change in Fleet numbers was used to designate which Admiral was in command at the time ( Halsey or Spruance) and to make the Japanese think there were twice as many ships.
6nY TIL, after searching for ‘overkill’, that there is such a thing as a 'nuclear land mine’.
gN8b TIL that during the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were deported to Mexico without due process. An estimated 1.2 million were US citizens.