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TIL Ted Koppel's German Jewish father was invited to England to help the war effort then imprisoned for being German

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N7Goe TIL The 1971 Coca-Cola ad ‘I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)’ featured a group of young multicultural people lip-synching the song on a hill to represent global unity. The South African government requested a version of the ad but without the black actors. Coca Cola refused
W64A TIL - On 9/22/1979 there was an unidentified nuclear explosion in the Indian Ocean, and it is known as the Vela Incident
v1E5K TIL of the Freedmen. The Cherokee had black slaves. In 1866 they signed a treaty that freed them and granted them and their descendants, tribal citizenship after Emancipation. The Nation has ostracized them and is trying to strip them of tribal citizenship largely due to their darker complexion.
d88B9 There is 'no incentive for escalator manufacturers to do anything different.'
9jZX TIL of Francis P Hammerberg. During salvage efforts in Pearl Harbor, two Navy Divers became trapped when a piece of wreckage collapsed. By tunneling through 20’ of mud and steel he saved both men but became trapped himself in the wreckage. He died 18 hours later and was awarded the Medal of Honor.