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TIL the modern dad in Dennis The Menace is actually 1980s Dennis grown up

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A8Jx TIL While President, Jimmy Carter sent his daughter to a public, integrated school in Washington D.C.
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awl0M TIL J. Paul Austin, CEO of Coca Cola threatened in 1964 to move his company's headquarters out of Atlanta if the city did not hold a celebration honoring MLK receiving the Nobel Prize.
nEWW TIL at the height of the Cold War the titanium used in building the legendary SR-71 Blackbird was sourced by the CIA (via dummy companies) from the completely oblivious Soviet Union.
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