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TIL - The United States Census Bureau assisted the internment efforts by providing confidential neighborhood information on Japanese Americans. The Bureau denied its role for decades, but it was finally proven in 2007.

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pPpG TIL that due to generations of healthier diet, the average American soldier was several inches taller than the average British soldier at the time of the American Revolution
d8b6r TIL the Stephen King book, The Tommyknockers, was loosely based on a creature from the folklore of Cornish miners. To some, knockers were malevolent spirits who knocked on supports to cause a cave-in. To others, the knocking a way of warning the miners that a collapse was imminent.
yZWM TIL, NSFW: A Playboy Centerfold was the standard test image by which graphic designers measured and compared advances in color, transitions, uniform regions, sharp edges, and electronic transmission.
5YK8p TIL about "Star Jelly", a strange jelly or slime that sometime appears on earth in the morning before disappearing or dissolving. Science has not explanation of this phenomenon. (Fixed link)
JNQj TIL that MythBusters once fired a cannonball at a bomb disposal range…and missed. Instead, it flew over 700 yards and through a bedroom in which a family was sleeping, eventually coming to a stop in a minivan.