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TIL BBC World Service was originally called “The BBC Empire Service”

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Z4pR TIL There are no longer any Safeways, Walmarts, or chain grocery stores in the city of Detroit
Y7jPP TIL on May 16, 1957, Yankees stars Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra attended a birthday party for Billy Martin at NYC’s Copacabana. A fight broke out when intoxicated bowlers yelled racial slurs at Sammy Davis Jr. One bowler, a Bronx deli owner, suffered a concussion and a broken jaw.
LknJm Today I learned, two men made famous in the 90’s who claimed to have created hundreds of crop circles since 1978 using rope and a simple wooden board admitted it was a Hoax.
e0oAE TIL that in 1914, police in California hired two men to lure homosexuals into public "glory holes" where the pair would score their victims penis with permanent markers and then drag them to the police station to be prosecuted.
dNL8 TIL, the US tried to get rid of the inhabitants of Diego Garcia by gassing the pets to death in front their owner to intimidate them and restricting their food and supplies so that it could build a military base.