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TIL that More Black Men are in Prison Today than were Enslaved in 1850

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awMQ0 TIL that U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower had a speech prepared in the event that the 1944 D-Day invasion failed. In the speech he takes full responsibility for the failure of the operation.
XAyj TIL there are warehouses so vast that they produce their own weather systems. The NASA assembly building at 348K sq. ft. even has its own rain clouds.
KYKjJ TIL that Joseph Pierce fought for the Union army during the American Civil War even through, he was born in China
0dXYM TIL that the universe has a color, called ‘Cosmic Latte’. Astronomers determined this by averaging the color of all light in the universe.
awYR9 TIL in 1947 in India there were still 565 active "princely states" or principalities under a local or traditional ruler in a subsidiary alliance with the British rule in India. They covered 40% of India and ranged from large states of 16 million people, down to 10 sq. miles with populations of 3,000