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TIL That tonic water will glow under a black light due to the presence of quinine in it.

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e0BKn TIL that in apartheid South Africa, a bus driver was fired for refusing to pick up a Japanese man (considered white at the time), but was reinstated after he stated he couldn't tell the difference between a Japanese person (white) and a Chinese person (not white).
GAep5 TIL that in 1958, the U.S. government accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family's backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb’s nuclear core was not installed, so it didn’t cause a nuclear explosion, but the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a massive crater and damaging the home
R7BQ8 TIL that after Ukraine banned the display of communist symbols in 2015, the city of Odessa turned a statue of Lenin into a monument to Darth Vader
6QmW TIL it is illegal for US Firms to boycott Israel - up to 10 years in prison
epEg TIL: The FBI’s security certificate is expired and they are hosted by GoDaddy…