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TIL A group of Soviet prisoners were able to revolt and seize control of their gulag for 40 days

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vP4DB TIL in 1945, 2 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, the Boston Red Sox held a sham "tryout" for him and other black players. Red Sox management shouted racial slurs from the stands and humiliated the players. The Red Sox would eventually be the last MLB team to racially integrate.
x45 TIL the USAAF filmed hundreds of hours of post-war Europe in summer 1945, most of which has never been seen. Special Film Project 186 has been called “the biggest color film project of World War II—and the biggest unseen film of all time.”
v1ZRR TIL Bindi Irwin had her $350,000 Dancing with the Stars prize money withheld because a Los Angeles Superior Court judge was requiring Irwin produce a form signed off by her father Steve. Steve Irwin had been dead for almost a decade.
XnVk TIL There’s a bunch of water under the Earth’s surface, more than we thought, and there’s 4 Times as much water on our planet than most people are aware of.
wLV1W TIL during the first part of the Apollo program it was assumed that Mars would be the next phase after the Moon, so initial plans were created for a rocket larger than the Saturn V, called "Nova".