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TIL: Einstein denounced segregation, calling it a “disease of white people” and worked against racism in America

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69g5W TIL in 1942, the city Winnipeg, Manitoba was mock-occupied by mock-Nazis, part of a campaign known as "If Day" to sell war bonds
OG55a TIL the second and third groups of people to circumnavigate the globe did so unwillingly. They were Spanish expeditions that sailed the Atlantic and Pacific to the East Indies and the Philippines, captured by the Portuguese, and taken captive to Lisbon by way of the Indian and Atlantic.
Z8mvQ TIL: Bananas (and kitty litter) are radioactive enough that they frequently trips the sensors at U.S. ports of entry meant to detect nuclear material being smuggled in shipping containers.
Q18X TIL at top speed, the Bugatti Veyron’s tires will last 15 minutes. However, it will run out of fuel in 12.
Z8NRB TIL one of the Dead Sea Scroll caves, discovered in 1952, contained up to 15,000 torn fragments. One archaeologist spent his life piecing them together, but died in 1979 with the work unfinished.