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TIL a journalist using pseudonym “Aryan Whitney” managed to get an A+ rating for white supremacist group Stromfront from Better Business Bureau for a $425 payment. He also managed to get an A- rating for Palestinian group Hamas for the same price.

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96Wp TIL in circuses, the Sousa march “The Stars and Stripes Forever” is played by bands to alert workers to a life-threatening emergency, and to expedite removing the audience. It is never a part of regular circus music programs for this reason.
5MmP TIL I learned a 17yo killed 4 people and injured 11 while drunk driving. The judge didn’t send him to jail because he “was unable to understand the consequences of his actions because of his financial privilege”
vmnx TIL that China had invented ceramics for teacups so early and they were so satisfied with it, they never had any glass right up until the 19th century. They were therefore left behind right up to the invention of medical science never having: Windows, lights, electronics, telescopes, microscopes etc
4kXkN TIL that from 2008 to 2014 an IBM employee with a security cleareance leaked the usage of Danish celebrities' credit cards in real-time to tabloid journalists and received a monthly $1500 "paycheck" for his services.
8Dpa TIL Desmond Doss is the first and only conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor. During the Battle of Okinawa, he aided and saved the lives of 75 wounded infantrymen. He did not carry a weapon or kill enemy soldiers.