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TIL that June 19th is a US Holiday called Juneteenth that celebrates the African American emancipation from slavery

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bnvj TIL The journalist who wrote CIA contra-crack story died from a suicide (2 gunshots in the head)
VyyQ TIL in every British nuclear submarine there is a handwritten letter from the British Prime Minister, to be opened only if the country has been decimated by nuclear war.
pYngA TIL the Battle of Castle Itter, fought on May 5, 1945 near the end of WWII, saw the Americans and Germans join forces to combat the SS attacking the Itter Castle in Austria, known to have housed a number of high-profile French prisoners.
Yp1Xx TIL that during the beginning of invention of electric appliances. They experimented with electric tablecloths. You could basically plug in an outlet anywhere on the table and the lightbulb would light up. Only downside was that you couldn’t spill any liquids on it
0dekR TIL that Nectanebo II was the last of the native Egyptian kings. Since then (340 BC) Egypt has been ruled by non-natives till the Egyptian revolution in 1952.