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TIL Snoop Dogg Was Cameron Diaz’s Pot Dealer In High School

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YgZZ TIL Quarantine comes from the Latin word for 40, which was the number of a days a ship had to wait to dock because of the plague…
9dvM TIL a German citizen was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police and handed-over to the CIA, who then held him in a black site and interrogated, beat, strip-searched, and sodomized him. When the victim later tried to sue, the case was dismissed as the US government claimed state secrets.
VaOp TIL that for 10 years after WWII, there was a fourth network on American broadcast television called The DuMont Television Network. The network folded in 1956, and today it has been all but forgotten because most of its archives were destroyed.
yVPMJ TIL There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on Earth
awWJo TIL about Tusla's "Black Wall Street" It was the wealthiest Black community in America at the time before being attacked by an angry white mob which killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed 35 city blocks. It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history