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TIL Black Americans serving in WWII under the French were treated with respect. However it concerned the US military so much it led to a directive stating: They MUST NOT eat with them, seek to talk, meet with, nor should they commend the black troops, particularly in the presence of white Americans.

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QxgM TIL that in an alternate DC Universe, Superman’s rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas. He is “the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact.”
wLAL8 TIL Martha Stewart dated Sir Anthony Hopkins but ended the relationship after she saw The Silence of the Lambs. She stated she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter
d86Jd TIL: The French drain may have been invented in France but Henry Flagg French described and popularized them in his 1859 book Farm Drainage
KOnKw TIL that Luke was written as Plo Kloon in The Mandalorian to hide the reveal
OGga TIL there’s a japanese company named Cyberdyne that invented a strength augmenting robotic exoskeleton. They named it HAL.