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TIL that in 1963, inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence, organizers led a successful Bristol Bus Boycott to end the state-owned Bristol Omnibus Company's then-legal policy of hiring only whites.

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oL1r TIL John Wayne Gacy’s former attorney, Sam Amirante, who heard Gacy’s original confession to over 30 murders, later went on to author the Missing Child Recovery Act of 1984 which removed the 72-hour waiting period to begin the search for a missing child.
J16Rm TIL that in 1935, New York City Mayor, Fiorello Laguardia, brought down a Mafia crime ring by banning baby artichokes for three days.
8JpZ TIL in 1561 the citizens of Nuremberg witnessed an aerial battle of UFOs that lasted for over an hour, with strangely shaped objects fighting each other until one side was the victor. There was even a crash landing, whos wreckage was taken away in the end by a vessel
aRXJ TIL that in November of 1987, a pirate television broadcast hijacked two Chicago TV stations (WTTW/WGN) featuring a man dressed as ‘Max Headroom’ who was being spanked with a fly swatter. The people responsible have never been identified.
6nP7 TIL “Mark Twain” (meaning “Mark number two”) was a Mississippi River term: the second mark on the line that measured depth signified two fathoms, or twelve feet.