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TIL former US president Jimmy Carter and Motown Records founder Berry Gordy are related by way of their great-grandfather James Thomas Gordy.

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Z4yv TIL that the UK’s porn filter architect was arrested on child porn offences.
Eg6vo TIL of the 'Petticoat Revolution' of 1916 in which seven women led secret campaigns to gain control of the town of Umatilla, OR
Y7g7x TIL that Europe moves the clock forwards and backwards during the Summer just like the United States' Daylight Savings Time. It's called European Summer Time. However, the transition is a few weeks apart from when the United States moves their clocks.
0M4y TIL in World War I, Germans used a non-lethal gas that could penetrate American gas masks and cause vomiting. When soldiers removed their masks to vomit, they were exposed to the fatal gasses already in the air.
KOnl6 TIL of the Bat Bomb, an experimental American WW2 weapon - a large canister filled with 1,040 bats, each carrying their own weight in napalm. Despite promising results, development progressed too slowly and the Bat Bob was abandoned in favour of the atomic bomb.