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TIL that -according to a report on the situation in Northern Ireland from 1969- laws and conditions in Northern Ireland had been cited by the South African government to justify its apartheid system.

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LkjL0 TIL about British general J.F.C. Fuller, whose theories influenced the Nazi's adoption of the blitzkrieg. In 1939, Hitler staged a parade of his mechanized army and asked Fuller "What do you think of your children?"
GYdJ1 TIL We live in a time period where we have the most information about nutrition and exercise in human history at our fingertips but over 66% of the U.S. population is overweight.
QJBJa TIL Marvin Heemeyer had an ongoing feud with the local officials in Grandy Colorado so he covered a bulldozer in metal and concrete armor with gun ports and went on a $7,000,000 rampage on June 4th 2004. He committed suicide when the "Killdozer" became trapped after falling into a basement.
MeQeA TIL San Diego hired a rainmaker to fix its drought in 1916. The floods that followed were the most devastating in the city's history.
4kyDw TIL before Theodore Roosevelt came to office in 1901, the White House wasn't called the White House. People called the building the President's Palace, the President's House, and the Executive Mansion. Roosevelt officially named it the White House.