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TIL the KKK didn’t originally burn crosses. It wasn’t until they were portrayed doing so in the 1915 silent film “Birth of a Nation” that the real KKK actually started doing it.

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lgm7 TIL in 1925, Henry Ford told the NYT that ethyl alcohol is “the fuel of the future”. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.“
5YEd9 TIL that in 1938 Chinese caused an intentional flood in an attempt to stop the advance of Japanese troops 400,000-900,000 people died.
epn9L TIL Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation music video produces a resonant frequency capable of crashing the hard drives of older laptops.
m1jwM TIL twice the amount of time has passed between the release of Back to the Future and today (39yrs) as between Back to the Future and the Vietnam War protests with Dr. MLK, Jr., Ginsberg, and hippies (18yrs).
EKJP TIL Stephen Colbert, Donald Glover, Aubrey Plaza, Zachary Galifianakis, and Kevin Hart were all rejected by Saturday Night Live