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TIL of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted of the crime and later admitted to the murder. Till’s mother had an open-casket funeral to display the injustice, helping spur the civil rights movement.

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ANXjd TIL: about Exercise Tiger, a large scale practice run months before for the D-Day invasion. Friendly fire from communication errors and attacks from Nazi E-Boats resulted in the deaths of 749 men. Eisenhower ordered that all servicemen be sworn to secrecy and was publicly unknown until the 1980s
Br01W TIL that in 1999, multinational cigarette company Philip Morris attempted to convince the Czech Republic that smoking was highly beneficial to the country's economy, as more people would die earlier, hence allowing the government to save millions on health-care, pension and public-housing.
7AO7 TIL that in the Middle Ages, rhyming nicknames were becoming common and that is the reason why Bill is short for William(Will), and Dick is short for Richard(Rick)
xVxvg TIL that for a while in the 2010s, you could rent the country of Liechtenstein on Airbnb for $70,000 a night. This included hanging out with the monarch, temporary currency, the ability to rename streets and a key to country.
e5yn TIL African Americans are more likely than any other racial group to develop and die from cancer. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have the lowest overall cancer rates.