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TIL Albatrosses Date for Years Before Making a Commitment

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5Y7YR TIL that "on January 13, 1958, Klansmen burned a cross on the lawn of a Lumbee American Indian woman in the town of St. Pauls, North Carolina as "a warning" because she was dating a white man." At their next rally, a group of 500 armed Lumbee encircled the klansmen and opened fire.
v1K0K TIL Arwen was about 2700 years old when she married Aragorn, who was roughly 90.
jNO7R TIL In 2008, when the Penguins and Red Wings were in the Stanley Cup Finals, Pittsburgh fish market Wholey’s IDed patrons to prevent Red Wings fans from getting an octopus to throw onto the ice
DnEj TIL Activia was sued for falsely claiming to be a health food.
lB71 TIL that 2001 A Space Odyssey had such a impact on astronauts that when the Apollo 8 crew were the first men to lay eyes on the far side of the moon they were tempted to radio back and say they saw a large black monolith