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TIL the KKK was denied the permit to Sponsor a segment of Interstate 55 in Missouri; when the federal court declared it unconstituional and the KKK was given the sponsorship the Missouri Legislature renamed the segment “Rosa Parks Highway”

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grMWW TIL of Yuichiro Miura, the oldest man to summit mount everest. At age 80, it was the third time he had made the ascent in 10 years.
dOBj TIL that a town in North Carolina banned solar energy because they thought it would “suck up all the energy from the sun”
loQAr TIL Elton John owned an English soccer team and was really good at it - "in the space of seven years, the club had climbed from bottom place in the lowest division of The Football League to top position in the highest division"
XrMj TIL the Allied operation to conceal the D-Day Invasion involved fake radio traffic, double agents, an Australian actor, and fake invasion plans for Calais, Norway, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans. It was so effective Hitler believed the real invasion hadn’t begun until seven weeks after D-Day.
X01yX TIL Stilton cheese cannot be legally produced in the village of Stilton.