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TIL the best place to see rainbow is Hawaii

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rAeW TIL A man in TX was still executed after someone else confessed for committing the murder and the only eyewitness admitted he didn’t actually see it.
WNwd TIL, whereas WWI killed over 10 million people, it was followed by the flu pandemic that killed upwards of 100 million.
W7ZPL TIL the entire city of Chicago was physically lifted several feet in the 1850s/60s with people living, working, and walking through the streets like it was completely normal.
x9pb TIL Charlie Chaplin would have canned The Great Dictator had he known about the actual horrors of the Nazi concentration camps at the time. “Had I known, … I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.”
VMkm4 TIL that Nobuo Fujita, the Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during World War II returned years later to present his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city as a symbol of regret