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TIL that there was an Armenian genocide of 1.5 million people in 1915, and that “The United States and Israel, valuing diplomatic ties with Turkey” don’t “officially accept” it as fact.

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P4vn TIL shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks a memo was distributed to radio stations with a list of songs deemed ‘lyrically inappropriate’; the list contained 165 suggestions with one reading “Every Rage Against the Machine Song”.
gMlX7 TIL until 1996, NYPD cars were painted blue. They phased out the blue cars in favor of factory white, resulting in a $1 million savings. Light blue shirts were replaced with dark blue to "hide coffee and donut stains"
78VM7 TIL Chinese Qing Emperors had to rise at 4am for his first audience. They had rigid schedules to write comments on local government reports for hours a day, and their only permitted amusements were shows, calligraphy, and painting
ADDn4 TIL that in 2003, during a case involving stolen lunar samples,a federal court set the value of the moon rocks at $50,800 per gram based on how much it cost the U.S. government to retrieve the samples between 1969 and 1972.
b99oj TIL, When kidnapped by Cilician pirates, Julius Caesar was insulted at the low ransom demand and, after being set free, captured and crucified the pirates.