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TIL that Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh was killed in California by a bomb. Three suspects linked with the Jewish Defense League fled to Israel before they could be arrested.

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W7JLX TIL slaves brought to America on 1859 in the Clotilda founded after the Civil War the city of Africatown, Alabama, retaining their West African culture until the 1950s
gE6y TIL if the 1972 Andes plane crash survivors went East instead of West, they would have found a hotel 18 miles down the valley instead of hiking 37 miles and climbing a 15,000ft mountain.
DBEe TIL that there are no natural lakes in Maryland
M7Yo0 TIL that Monrovia, the capital of Liberia in West Africa, is the second national capital to be named after a US president (James Monroe), apart from Washington DC. It also is the only national capital named after a leader of a different country.
mxYP TIL when Ray Bradbury was 14, he got to know George Burns who encouraged him to write. 30 years later, Ray Bradbury got to meet Burns again to thank him.