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TIL that when the KKK was founded the KKK consisted of a group of Southern whites Democrats who were targeting Republicans with violence because they knew that given the chance, the blacks would vote Republican.

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neQ0o Today I learned that when you eat pineapple and your tongue begins to hurt it is due to the fact that the pineapple is eating you back thanks to bromelain.
jNGmE TIL that platypuses produce milk despite lacking nipples. Instead of teats, they "sweat" milk from glands on their belly that their young then lap up.
j6O7n TIL that every winter, thousands of giant cuttlefish come together off the coast of South Australia for a lively mating event. Males show off changing colors and patterns to attract potential mates.
e04mg TIL that Samuel J. Seymour, the last surviving witness of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, lived long enough to be interviewed on national television on February 9, 1956.
b9QVE TIL that most of Sam Jones' lines in Flash Gordon were dubbed by another (unknown?) actor, after quitting before the movie was finished and that George Lucas had originally wanted to make it, but went to to film Star Wars instead, which also had a famously (deliberately, this time) dubbed actor. #20