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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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7rN0M TIL about The Bee Hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world
gB87 TIL in 2009, Colorado initiated its Family Planning Initiative to provide low-to-no cost birth control to 68 family clinics around the state. Between 2009 and 2013, the state’s teen birth rate dropped by 40%.
RKW4 TIL In 2009 burglars broke into Dolph Lundgren’s house and had restrained his wife. They then fled when they saw a family photo and realized whose house they were in.
D1g9e TIL that Jackie Chan sings the Cantonese version of “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” on the DVD for the Disney movie Mulan
xVA7B TIL Capital punishment has only been imposed twice in the history of the state of Israel, one was a mistake the other was Adolf Eichmann